I'm not a flag waver for obesity. It's not healthy, and you have a crap life because there is such a downer on it.

I like men. They are hugely entertaining, but they have a lot of shortcomings and you just have to bear those in mind.

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

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'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.

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.

There are problems with nursing - such as the issue of nurses all having to do degrees these days. But that doesn’t mean to say the entire infrastructure of nursing is falling about and that it is populated by unfeeling psychopaths, which is, frankly, the implication sometimes.