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

It's no surprise to me that intellectuals commit suicide, go mad or die from drink. We feel things more than other people. We know the world is rotten and that chins are ruined by spots.

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

Yes, I hate it when people call me a 'national treasure'. It takes away your bite and makes you feel like a harmless old golden Labrador.

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

I married two weeks after my 18th birthday, far too young, and by the time I was 23 I was a single mother of three small children, Sean, Daniel and Victoria, living in a prefab house.

I am the world's worst diabetic.