To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

I look like Julian Clary on steroids.

To me, a politician's job is to listen to constituents' problems and try to sort them out.

For a long time, people assumed I was gay, so when I got married the press were all a bit shocked and made a big deal of it - and ditto when I had children. I felt very much under the microscope with paps outside the house taking pictures of me getting the baby out of the car, it was excruciating. I remember getting her out of the car seat and thinking 'oh God I'm going to drop her and they're going to take a picture'. I was so nervous. Those sorts of things are really hard.

I have seen good nurses and bad nurses. They existed along a continuum: from hard-working, kind and competent people, to office-hugging, bone-idle types, to apathetic, disengaged automatons.

When I was a nurse my favourite assignment was the anorexic ward. I sometimes ate as many as seventeen dinners

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.