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

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.

We have to take risks with art. If we don't, it all becomes a bit boring

In order to be creative you have to be allowed to fail.

I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.

I went through bits of the 60s and thought myself a bit of a hippy.

I can talk myself so much into my part.