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

Some men are deeply likable but have attitudes I don't like. Does that mean I should completely dismiss them? It's like saying: if someone votes Tory can you like them? And, yes, I can. I have friends who vote Tory, and I'm appalled, but that's not to say they're not great people in so many other ways. We have a tendency to oversimplify things.

There's still this underlying image of women that they should fulfil a certain role. It's no accident that a lot of men who are a bit misogynistic tend to say things like 'get back to the kitchen' or 'why aren't you at home looking after the kids'.

Madness isn't altogether a bad thing in comedy.

When you cry, you don't look very attractive; you look snotty and blotchy. People seem to manage to cry quite prettily these days, and to me, that smacks of not being very genuine.

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.

I read that book Fat is a Feminist issue, got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.