I like the purity of stand-up because it is all about whether people laugh at your jokes. Either they laugh or they don't.

There's still this underlying image of women that they should fulfil a certain role. It's no accident that a lot of men who are a bit misogynistic tend to say things like 'get back to the kitchen' or 'why aren't you at home looking after the kids'.

Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.

Punk allowed women to stop looking feminine. Oh, the relief.

Inside every fat person there's a thin person looking to get out - They've just eaten them.

Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky.

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.