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

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

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.

People need to learn to take everyone as they are.

I am a kid in the dressing-up box at heart.

Other than my memory being a bit woolly and my knees being a bit creaky, I don't really think there's anything I can't do.

That's the weird thing about not being married - you can't get regular kissing; you can't be guaranteed of it, and that's a great shame.