I'm a very positive person. My grandmother taught me that happiness is both a skill and a decision, and you are responsible for the outcome.

As I've got older, I feel more confident in my body, so wouldn't want to tamper with it.

I'm half Scottish, half Welsh and I regard red hair as perfectly ordinary. And to set the record straight, contrary to reports, he has never referred to himself as the 'Ginger Ninja'.

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

I can sleep anywhere! I can come off stage during the interval of a play, lie down for four minutes then wake up feeling better.

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

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