You’re not going to learn anything if you’re not prepared to go flat, so I’m very happy to go flat.

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing.

I'm not drunk onstage, although I've done that a couple of times when I was younger. It's partly just the way I talk - I talk like somebody in a rocking chair. I'm your 150-year-old grandmother.

In the same way, there is some creature gnawing away inside of me, urging me to do things in different ways.

We all know smoking is bad. I know I'm going to quit someday, if I thought I wasn't I'd quit now.

Then you get these articles about how unhealthy life is in the city. You know; mobile phone tumours - far more likely in the city. Well you know what, so is everything else! Including sex, coffee and conversation.

I don't want to do the same thing over and over again.