Victoria wood

Radio killed variety and TV killed radio, and the internet will kill television and it will go on and on.

In London it's easy not to be the focus of attention, especially when Sting lives in the house just behind you.

In my 20s I was going round seeing agents who were patronising because I was fat and a girl, which was a double whammy. I knew what it was to feel out-of-the-loop.

Well, I think there's not much of a chance for me finding somebody of my age. Gentlemen of my age are dropping down 30 years to find girlfriends.

Sexual harassment at work... is it a problem for the self-employed?

Music enriches people's lives in the same way paintings and literature do. Everybody deserves that.

My mother, she didn't believe in praise. She'd never say anything was great. I think that's quite Northern, to not make people feel too good. I didn't mind if she was proud of me or not, it didn't...

People always think I hate doing interviews. I don't. I wouldn't do them if I didn't like them.

I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I don't spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on.

If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.