Being Christian towards poor people means trying to improve their lives and give them back some self-respect.

If you want to get a pet for your child, I suggest a chicken so that when they get bored of it after a couple of days at least you can have a nice roast dinner.

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

I remember when Victoria Wood started to come through, and I thought she was great, though she and I are very different in our approach.

When you have children your house smells very unpleasant all the time.

I've never, ever had people being aggressive to me in public or abusing me, and actually quite a lot of men do say to me, 'You're quite good' - though they can't bear to go, 'You're great.'

I've seen a lot of women give up after they've had three or four bad gigs in a row. It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.