I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.

Social satire has been around since people have been around.

I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.

It's strange how sometimes you can be so happy it goes all the way round to sadness.

I'm terribly attention-seeking. It's very different once you get all this attention, though. Because then you want to control it. And you can't exactly.

TV has lost a lot of its self-confidence as its power has been eroded by the internet.

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.