I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.
I've realised I need a gnawing, nagging, anxious doubt when I wake at 4 A.M.
I will absolutely say that whatever job I was asked to do, whatever schedule I was asked to work, it is never going to be as hard as looking after a child.
I used to go red when anybody spoke to me. It's awful because you absolutely cannot control it. If you are a child that blushes, or is shy, the one thing you want in the world is to be the child who...
Because I was a shy and awkward child, I used humour to deflect attention. It was a controlling mechanism. Because I could use it to control my image.
By a lot of people's standards, I lived a very privileged life. I never wanted for attention, I never wanted for material things. In some ways, I was probably spoiled because I never had to share. And...
When I realised I had a facility for humour, I latched on to it, and it gave me confidence and I built my personality around it. So I subconsciously made myself become the funny one so that would be...
I'm naturally quite lazy, and I actually think I'm lax about my career. None of my work defines who I am.
Although I was a shy child, I was also a bit flamboyant.