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.

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

I love everything about books. I love the content, the way they look and even the lovely way they smell. I think a book collection says something about you as a person, and certainly my books are something I'd want to pass on for future generations.

Work motivates me. I love what I do and I'm a positive person, I've always liked what I've done as a job - however grim it was.

I've always liked to think I could do anything I wished as well as - if not better than - a man. But I wasn't very good at rally driving.

When you have children your house smells very unpleasant all the time.