Music really influenced me when I was growing up. I did go through a Jimi Hendrix phase. My hair was naturally quite afro, and I wore low-slung jeans with very high heels. Siouxsie and the Banshees had a lot to answer for. I was in a top hat with peacock feathers and thigh-high black boots. I was 17 -- old enough to know better.

I was a real art freak when I was a teenager.

If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

To be honest, my husband and my children are my best friends.

So often when you meet child actors, they're weird - they're freaks. No, I mean it, they're really odd people.

I listen to Radio 4 all the time. I didn't go to university, so that's my further education.

A script is only as good as the director who's making it.