My wife when I tried out some new material on her, said: “I’m sure the people who like you would like that.”

“Your career will be over if you have the baby.”To whom would you most like to say sorry, and why? My parents, for my teenage years. I tried to run away when I was 15. We lived in a fishing village in France and, with my boyfriend, I headed to Spain to sell arts and crafts on the beach. Mum came and took me home.

I don’t think you could print it, it’s so bad.

A fellow artist called me a flaneur!

A glow of wellbeing.

If there could be a double of me to look after my child when I’m working.

Very impatient, bossy, always late.

Magician’s assistant on a cruise ship for two weeks when I was 19. When I was meant to be being levitated, I was silently crying while pretending to be unconscious as I hung limply off a metal pole. It was bleak.

Lemn Sissay. What happened to him and what he’s done with his life is extraordinary.

Years ago, I was trying to get with one of the big agencies and I cobbled together a VHS tape of me in adverts and sobbing in The Bill, and took it United Agents for the attention of Dallas Smith. A week later I went back and said, “Has she looked at the tape?” And they were, like, “Dallas is a he, no he hasn’t and he doesn’t want to,” and handed it back to me.