If I have half an hour to spare, I just have to hit the shops. And I can get overexcited.

I can tan quickly. What takes people hours to do, I can tan in half an hour.

I just love playing characters that are a long way away from me.

I'd heard Joyce Grenfell on the radio, and when Mum gave me a book of her comic routines, I just loved it. Me and my sister shared a bedroom, and every night I'd drive her mad with my version of 'George, Don't Do That' about people we knew at school.

It wasn't my finest hour. It wasn't even my finest half hour.

I can take a three-year-old and make a hit record.