What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.

I've often said the most difficult things I have to say to people through humour. I can very quickly put someone in their place with it. But we all walk away unscathed because there's been some funnies around it, and I'll usually make sure that it comes back at me.

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've chosen to stay in a jolly place for most of my life, and that is a lot of who I am.

I know what it's like to struggle for cash. When I went to drama school, I worked as a chambermaid to make ends meet.

I don't read novels whilst I'm writing one; I just haven't got a wide enough brain to concentrate on incoming and outgoing in the same time zone.

I've always loved kissing. We all do, don't we?