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.

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

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

I'm too nervous to eat before I go onstage, and I'll usually eat out after the performance or when I get home at midnight.

I must be an anorexic because an anorexic looks in the mirror and sees a fat person.

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.

Not many women will go out on a limb to make themselves really unattractive and unfeminine so you can get the laughs, but it's a great thing to do in my book.