People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.

I'm just trying to spread the word and upturn the myth that actually you should be resting after cancer treatment. You shouldn't; you should be getting out and doing any kind of exercise you can. You don't have to run a marathon, but you just have to up your activity levels.

Even nice things don't make you happy when you're tired.

Managers of hospitals, over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might allow them to balance the books, it does not mean they have any insight into how a ward should be managed and patients best served.

I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.

Work motivates me. I love what I do and I'm a positive person, I've always liked what I've done as a job - however grim it was.

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.