No one I know is actually so rude as to tell me I've become duller since having children. But I'm sure they think it.

In the end, punk inevitably burned itself out and acted as a bridge across which the New Romantics could sashay in their chiffon and glossy hair.

The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.

My mum always felt that women deserved as much as men, and should have as much power, so I suppose I opted to go into a very male-dominated arena to try and prove that.

It's inevitable that if you do okay on something like that you don't just annoy people, that it will make a difference because it seemed like such a lot of people so, yes I would have to say that it has done.

I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.

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.