Yes - I am usually overweight. I have had to be interested in diet because of being diabetic for 30 years and having kidney failure.

I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.

I'm spectacularly disorganised. I wrote my latest book in seven different notebooks scattered throughout my house.

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

I have decided to keep a full journal, in the hope that my life will perhaps seem more interesting when it is written down.

Sometimes I rant, in a comical way, about how the gods give with one hand and take with the other.

Barry Kent's father looks like a big ape and has got more hair on the back of his hands than my father has got on his entire head.