As a dancer, you go from one show to the next, and you never know where your next pound is coming from, and I think that's what makes me say yes to so many things, because there's always a fear that you won't have a job.

I think women should be paid the same as men. That's for sure. But what would you say to a woman coming in after you've been in the job for 15 years when they've done absolutely nothing to earn it? I don't think that's right.

I direct as many shows as I can fit in between 'Strictly Come Dancing' and other performance stuff.

Strictly' has evolved - there are such beautiful stories within each dance. We're not doing a ballroom and Latin competition, it's an entertainment show.

Humans have a sense of spontaneity and emotion. We have a dichotomy between grief and happiness.

Maine is a joy in the summer. But the soul of Maine is more apparent in the winter.

I had to try and find a way to express happiness without sounding corny.

It's wonderful to be able to have such wildly different projects in your body of work. They don't feel different to me as I'm working on them. It feels like they all share this element of subversiveness and finding the joy in subversiveness.