I like being able to go to the supermarket and go on the Tube and have an ordinary domestic life. I'd hate to have to protect myself. I'm quite lucky that I can carry on without any intrusions. I don't get given a hard time by anyone.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

People smile at me as if they know me. I just smile back. They probably might know me.

The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.