I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

Hackney gets a bit of a bad rap, but it's the only place I've ever lived that felt like a community. I know my neighbours.

I always, always want to make people laugh. In every situation. Even when it's inappropriate.

I'll cry anywhere because I can do it quite subtly. Walking, that's a good time to have a cry.

Comedians... they're different from actors. There's more ego there. They create the whole thing, I guess, so they're more precious.

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.

I love Sutton House in Clapton, a beautiful example of Tudor architecture.

I'm the person who will go to a wedding and switch the place cards around because I don't want to sit next to someone I don't know, because I'm so bad at chatting to strangers.

Spending way too long worrying about what people think about me is a bad habit.

I was the kid who liked making other people laugh, so maybe the comedy came before the acting.

Stresses in a marriage and in family life, sometimes they're prompted by whatever is going on in the wider world as well as what's going on behind your door.

My negotiation skills are are on par with George Bush's reading ability. And just like Dubya, every time I've tried to put forth an effort, I am reminded that my only true strength lies in drinking.

I've never preached one sermon on money, on just finances. I want to stay away from it.

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

Health and an able body are two jewels.

You can never entirely stop being what you once were. That's why it's important to be the right person today, and not put it off till tomorrow.

Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.

If, for example, you were to think more deeply about death, then it would be truly strange if, in so doing, you did not encounter new images.

The world isn't set up equally, and the first billion people using Facebook have way more money than the rest of the world combined.

We are taking challenges and turning them into opportunities by developing homegrown, local energy production to become independent from foreign sources.

I love to rock, but it's liberating not to always have to keep up with the freight train that is the Old 97's