Young people need their own private places which mothers don't belong to, even if they want mother all around the edge of that.

I keep my own personality in a cupboard under the stairs at home so that no one else can see it or nick it.

I think of myself now as a writer, although I wouldn't go as far as to say 'novelist' because that sounds like a Victorian person.

The only time I did not know how to be, physically, was when I lost a lot of weight. That was the only time I didn't understand my body.

I am not, I repeat, NOT a lesbian - even though I'd like to be one when I grow up.

I'd like to play a horse, many people think I already have. Either end of the horse would be fine.

Theatre outings are my favourite thing to spend money on. The most influential play I saw was Bent, which starred Ian McKellen. And I loved the original performance of The Rocky Horror Show, with Richard OBrien and Tim Curry at the Royal Court, when I was about 15.