I'm not a great poetry fan.

I went to boarding school at seven and cried and cried.

I think marriage is ghastly.

I'm miserable: that's why I have such a bad back, because I'm endlessly stressing out about my career.

What's happened to humour? We're becoming American. Everyone gets so angry over everything.

From my point of view, being out is not about anything political. It's just because I can't be bothered to be in.

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.