I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.

I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.

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.

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

I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways.

Anything is good if it's made of chocolate.

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.