I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.

I become quite inhibited particularly when I do comedy, I won't - there's a whole thing of allowing an audience in and if you - if you cover yourself with a mask of, kind of, severity, which I'm quite good at doing, that's masking fear of course, then people feel shut out.

In comedy, it's very, very important to be able to open up so that people feel they're included.

In some roles you do get into a mode of terror. It's always very frightening - the first audiences are frightening.

There is a complete disconnect really or should be a disconnect between the retail price of the milk and what's actually going on in the marketplace, and what influences the farm gate price is the export market.

I think it's very important for Arts Ministers to purchase art, to attend art, to validate art.

You don't like to have people believing that you're doing the wrong thing which is why we're trying to make sure that people recognise that we do the right thing.