Katherine Ryan

I love Lena Dunham. I love, love, love her.

If I'm in the position where I get to hire someone, where I get to decide who joins me on tour, then I am mindful about that, and I try to suggest women that I know who I think deserve more exposure.

Why would you watch an Oscar-nominated film unless you're mad enough to purposely experience feelings? Bleh. I'm not interested in catching those.

When you're little, every experience writes on the canvas of who you are.

My mother was a businesswoman; my grandmother was a businesswoman - it never occurred to me that life might be harder because you're a woman. It wasn't until later and I had a bigger sense of the world that I realised that.

My life is so much better with lupus because I know that stress and too much junk food will literally put me in hospital.

I don't think I spoke to anyone apart from my daughter for the first two years of her life.

Part of me has always wanted to be like Marilyn Monroe or any Fifties Hollywood starlet. On screen, they seemed so sexy and simple and looked after. In real life, I'm none of those things. But I'd rather be fierce and complicated.

One of my favourite things about living in the U.K. is having that chance to go to festivals.

I have a really different touring life to most comedians because I go home every night to do the school run in the morning. So I'm not in hotels or living it up.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't want to look and feel like a grown woman when I was young. That's one reason why it's important to hold adults who take advantage of that fully accountable.

I didn't really realise that I was going to have more obstacles because I was a woman. It was never something that I thought about.