Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.

You don't really see ugly people that are old, or a bit grotty and smelly, in the media. If a Martian came down, they would think we were all tall, thin, attractive and wealthy.

There are so many cliches associated with mental health - such as the 'fine line between lunacy and genius' - which are, on the whole, a load of rubbish.

It is unrealistic to expect an entire profession to be completely good. There are bound to be some individuals who are stressed, who are unkind, who are a bit rubbish at their job, who are in the wrong career.

The problem with comedy audiences - it's like the Coliseum - when they see someone struggling, they don't feel altruistic towards them. They feel slightly repulsed by it.

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

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