It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

Women today are bombarded with so many messages, like we should have Naomi Campbell's body and Madeleine Albright's career.

There are so many images pushed at women and so many ideas of what you're supposed to be. I think there's too much of this superwoman, this woman with a bottom like two billiard balls. There's no real celebration of just being a person.

Nobody wants to be racist and I think that most people aren't.

I consider myself a serious musician. Doing a comedy show does not take away from that in any way.

I think it would be harder for me not to write comedy because the comic view of things is the one that comes most naturally to me.

Comedy is a coping mechanism, and it helps us stay alive.

If someone is genuine, compassionate and kind, that is a turn-on. A sense of humor is a huge turn on, and that goes hand in hand with intelligence.