I think there's a danger that we're moving towards a state where the people we are expected to admire are almost not human anymore, and I don't like that. I prefer it when someone looks like a nice person, and you think, 'I could have a laugh with them in the pub.'

I went on the pill when I was 16, put on four stone... so that proved to be a very effective contraceptive.

I think it's so easy when you have children just to turn your focus inward on your family and because, when they're young, you don't sleep very much, you're walking around like a zombie most of the time anyway. It's a really important part of my life to have good friends, you have to work quite hard to keep the relationships going but it's worth it.

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.

Once you get labelled, people expect you to behave within the very narrow confines of that label.

I am a hip-hop artist, as you probably know. My hip-hop name is Big Smalls.

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.