One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably.

It's actually very hard when you're settled in one place to completely uproot yourself and go.

I took my husband to the hospital yesterday to have 17 stitches out - that'll teach him to buy me a sewing kit for my birthday.

People are so different in reality from the picture created of them on TV. So it's all a creation; everything is made up.

I tried to eat better too, but when you're on tour you literally just eat some hideous pork pie on the motorway on the way to a show. It's a really unhealthy lifestyle: you're up late, drinking loads of coffee to stay awake, drinking loads of alcohol because you're socialising with people.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

The comedian sticks as religiously to her theme as a dancer sticks to a diet.