I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

It's a bit like a fledgeling duck, finding your flippers.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

There is nothing far-fetched about disappointment as a subject for comedy. It's something we are all too familiar with.

The one thing I've found is that someone always knows more than you do, including your babies. There are loads of things people presume I know about that I don't.

On the one hand, we're constantly told about recycling and cutting back, and on the other hand we have to buy the next gadget that comes along three weeks after the last one you bought. It's absolutely insane. We've been suckered into buying and buying and upgrading and upgrading. We're being given two very different mantras at the moment, I think.