"As a five-year-old in Berlin in 1965, I didn't know that funny women existed. It wasn't until I got back to England that I realised women could be funny."

"I was trained as an actress. But I wasn't a very convincing actress, so I started doing punk poetry and then fell into doing stand-up."

"After graduating from flares and platforms in the early 1970s, I started drama school wearing a pair of khaki dungarees with one of my Dad's Army shirts, accessorised by a cat's basket doubling as a handbag. Very Lady Gaga."

"I think my siblings sometimes have to defend me within their social circles - they are both barristers."

"He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher."

"Pop music is not a threatening style of music."

"Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."

"I help design my own tennis clothes."