There is this idea that appealing to youth is the only way forward. But that is no longer the case. Youth is not everything. Now we have all the baby-boomers in their 60s, like me, who are actively engaged in life - we're not retiring, we're not just being put out to grass once we hit 60.

I was having my teens in my 30s.

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

I'm too young at 50. I'm not grown up yet. There's part of everybody like that.

The way I relax is I think, 'I haven't got anything coming up.' I like to know there are months ahead when I've got nothing.

Debate is so much better than denial.

I felt my mother about the place. I don't think she haunts me, but I wouldn't put it past her.