I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think a book collection says something about you as a person, and certainly my books are something I'd want to pass on for future generations.

I have such admiration for single mothers. I simply don't comprehend how you'd cope with that intensity, the lack of breaks, ever, on your own.

I buy smoked mackerel in a vain attempt at being healthy. I do actually really like it, and you don't have to cook it, which is handy.

You know it's time for a New Year's resolution to lose weight when you step on a talking scale and it says, "One at a time, please.

And I also felt that no one in an audience could abuse me worse than the sort of abuse I had had at work as a psychiatric nurse.

My dad's a very sensitive man, but as the archetypal rebellious teenager, I didn't realise that.

I look like Julian Clary on steroids.