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

Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.

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

When I was a nurse I never had much money, and I was still happy then.

I often tell audiences at the start of my shows that I'm not gay because I've got petitions from lesbian groups saying 'Can you tell people you're heterosexual because you're giving us a bad name.'

I like to shock people.

It's a video release as well so I have to be perfectly honest and go, probably not specifically for DVD, but there are extra bits on it that aren't on anything else, so as exciting as that sounds.