It wasn't a conscious effort to have kids later. It was just the way life goes.

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

One thing Christians do have in common is that they can't help coming across as smug.

My mum is bright, ambitious, well read, political and very bolshie: when my dad was conscripted into the Army and posted to Libya, she convinced some general to let her go with him. I don't know how she managed it.

Privatisation splits hospital services into increasingly small packages.

There's something people do to you when they bully you that makes you feel like you're on your own. But don't keep things inside, it's really damaging if you do.

Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. 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. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.