Having done a normal job for 10 years, as a psychiatric nurse dealing with emergencies, I know what terrible, hopeless lives some people have. So in many ways, it's great to be able to wield the financial power that I can, and do gigs, fundraisers or give money. I feel lucky I can help out.

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

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

When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners

You know it's time for a New Year's resolution to lose weight when you step on a talking scale and it says, "One at a time, please.

Managers of hospitals, over the years have been increasingly recruited from outside the health service and although their experience of running a supermarket chain might allow them to balance the books, it does not mean they have any insight into how a ward should be managed and patients best served.

I think some people ramp a side of themselves up for performance purposes.