There will always be a few people who just want to knock you down or are jealous or just want to be horrible for the sake of it. I don't know what drives someone to be nasty.

I was so afraid of upsetting people, and not being liked for saying something that was not to everyone's taste.

First my mother was Spanish. Then she became a Jehovahs Witness.

I've got an image of me at the bottom of my garden sitting under my silver birch tree reading, while everyone else had gone somewhere exotic.

Lyrically I'm very ironic and silly, but I hope I'll touch your heart

For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

I love being on the beach - it's my favourite place. I can chill out, read, listen to music, play with my daughter.