I have big friends who won't go swimming because they're too embarrassed about it. I feel that's such a shame, because actually people should be encouraging fat people who are exercising to do it, not pointing and laughing.

I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

Men are fantastic - as a concept.

I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.

I thought I was funny as a kid.

I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.