I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.

I wonder whether being a scientists daughter makes you so conflicted about free will and fate.

I am a world expert on how to organise tasks in a senseless order, totally unrelated to priority, and thus create a massive panic leading up to an important deadline.

As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them.

I wanted to be a ballerina as a child - I had a tutu, and I used to stage my own ballets in our front room with my family as the audience.

I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.