To stay in the moment and live each day to the maximum. You never know when it’s going to be taken away.

Genuine love is given freely, not by force.

To be here in this one moment.

Perspective. I used to zoom in and it would be all catastrophic, now I zoom out and get a bit of perspective.

Going to pieces while meeting John Squire, the lead guitarist of the Stone Roses, backstage after a gig. I completely lost the ability to speak. I told him I had the same guitars as he’d just used on stage, and when he asked me which ones, the words completely went out of my head and there was a huge pause, and then his wife tapped his shoulder and he wandered off.

After the birth of both my children, although Manchester United winning the treble in 1999 came pretty close.

Working in a very busy bar in the West End when I was trying to pay my way through drama school. I had to dance in a cage in a vest and cycling shorts to Venus by Bananarama, Greased Lightnin’ and Y.M.C.A. every night. It was excruciating.

A couple of years ago we moved to East Sussex – I had been living in London for 35 years – and couldn’t work out why I kept waking up and thinking, what’s that sound? It was actually silence.

Outliving my kids – and rats.

Professionally, becoming a relative success in a job that I love; and personally, helping to raise two wonderful children.