I knew I wanted to be in show business so I took the path of least resistance. I loved comedy. But you never know you are funny until people laugh. It's just what I was interested in. I could make people laugh, I guess, but doing it at school and doing it onstage are very different things.

Writing is extremely personal, and that's the joy of it for me.

You want to be a bit compulsive in your art or craft or whatever you do.

To me, torture would be, "I can't think what to write in the next sentence. I'm stuck." Torture would be if you didn't have the next idea.

A friend of mine once asked how to make it in show business and I said "Be so good that they can't ignore you." She thought I was being flip but it's true. The challenge is trying to live up to the opportunities given me.

A father carries pictures where his money used to be.

I'm not trying to be a big shot or anything like that, but I get my drinks half price.