Anybody who has had the pleasure of reading an article about themselves in the press, knows that on the whole, there is a huge amount of inaccuracy, value judgment and the use of a crowbar to insert editorial bias that reflects the current political leaning of that particular paper.

I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.

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.

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.

I've no interest in fashion, shoes, handbags, or sweaty shopping.

When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.

I think self-esteem is fluid. It's not a fixed state, and so some days are better than others.