I wanted above all else not to be like my mum.

I do find it therapeutic, writing about stuff that was frightening and painful as a child, and managing to see it from an adult's point of view. To get it out of the closet onto paper, metaphorically speaking, is therapeutic.

When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow.

I keep seeing myself in my daughter, and I see my mother in me and in her. Bloody hell.

Self worth is everything. Without it life is a misery.

I think comedy's something you can't learn. It's an instinct, which makes it rather elusive.

Shakespeare - it's not funny. No matter how they try to make Shakespeare funny, when it's meant to be funny it's not funny.