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HACKNEY EMPIRE My favourite place. They were given a big grant by Hackney Council and thought all their worries were over, and then it was taken back again. The council had another meeting and reversed the decision they'd made before. Have you been there? It's such a beautiful place. Nearly anyone could put a show on there if they put their mind to it.		ROGER WHITTAKER Roger, yes. I'm fascinated by him. It's the whistling, and his popularity. He sells millions and millions of records very consistently over a long period of time. I find it amazing. I can't see what the attraction is, although I'm sure he's got some.
HECKLERS It's quite easy to categorise hecklers. You get the witty heckler, you get the drunk heckler, you get the incomprehensible heckler. Anyone who heckles, there's some kind of challenge there, so what you can't do is ignore it, even if you don't understand what they're saying. There are those who just shout "F*** off" all the time. It gets a bit grating after a while.		ARROGANCE Yes, well there's a lot of cocaine around, and I think cocaine makes people very arrogant. I just switch off, I can't cope with it at all. If you can diffuse someone's arrogance, jolly good. If you can't, then that's just the way they are, and I wash my hands of them really.
OBSESSION I'm sort of obsessed with Fanny. She's not too happy on this long tour, and that worries me no end. It's always been the same. If I go out for more than a couple of hours, I start fretting that she's a bit lonely. MONOGAMY Monogamy, hmm. I change my views on that from time to time.		FANNY THE SEX MACHINE Fanny's completely unsexual, really. She had her moment, I mean she got pregnant on the first season she had, when she was about six or seven months old. She had these awful puppies. There were four of them, they were huge. A very difficult birth, and everything. Also, the vet told me she'd only have two, so there I was relaxing and lighting a cigarette when this huge black thing emerges. Still, we had a nurse there. I was sharing a flat with her. It was useful for one of them, which came out the wrong way round.
GETTING SEQUINS TO STICK ROUND YOUR EYES Eyelash glue. Only I do have trouble when it get's hot, if it all runs and you get make-up in your eyes. It's a bit difficult to carry on, sometimes. It means I'm in a lot of pain. Russell the pianist usually hands me a tissue. FAVOURITE DOG FOOD We're quite keen on Mr Dog at the moment. It's rather chauvinist for her. She's been on Pedigree Chum for years, but she gets cystitis a lot, and the vet's explanation was that there's too much protein in her diet, and I should give her food with less meat in it. So we tried Chappie, but she doesn't want to know, she doesn't like the look of it, and nor do I. She walks away unless I put a tin of sardines in it. But that rather defeats the object. Sometimes she won't eat and I know she's hungry really. She can be a prima donna. I have to feed her by hand then.		LOOKING THROUGH PEOPLE'S FILOFAXES I'll look at people's anything, really. I'm very nosy by nature, I can't be left alone in someone's apartment because I go through all the drawers. At a show, you have to take each step at a time. You take someone's handbag and see how they react to that, then you open it and see how they react, and in terms of reading a diary, I'm very selective about what I read. These days. Years ago, I used to read anything, private letters, doctor's appointments. You can't go round doing that. There was one girl I was at college with and I did her handbag one night, and she hasn't spoken to me since. Well, I read out all this stuff about a problem with her nipples - and seeing a doctor about it. In front of all her friends. If it happened to me, I'd never speak to that person again, either.
STAGE FRIGHT Yes, it can descend at any moment. If I get a lot of negative feelings from an audience, I can crumble visibly. My acupuncturist has taught me various things, like there's a green pyramid you can put on that stops negative thoughts getting through to you. You shut your eyes and put yourself in a pyramid of green light. If you're feeling vulnerable about anything it's quite handy, you know. I can put it on to go to the shops, if I want.		CRYING Yes, I cry. Not in front of anyone, and not often, and not for long. Most often, I suppose, it's some kind of self-pity. Or did you see the programme last night about tigers? Well, it was a very detailed film about these people hunting a tiger. I just kept thinking, why would they film this, why aren't they stopping it? They snared it's paw first, you know, then they went back and shot it, and it took a long time to die.
PUBLIC TRANSPORT Oh, I won't have anything to do with it. On the few occasions when I say, "Oh, you're mad to get a taxi, it's two stops on the tube", you get on that tube, and I do, then it breaks down in a tunnel, and I have an anxiety attack.		CONTINENTAL LOVERS I've dabbled with quite a few nationalities. In reverse order, if we must - mind you, these are individual cases and by the way, English don't even count, they don't know what they're doing at all - I might put Scottish third. Brazilians second and French first.
UNDYING LOVE I think people often decide love is dead when it's not, either within themselves or other people. You tell yourself you no longer care about that person when in fact you do. I'm quite obsessive in these matters.		DOC MARTENS I really like the look of them and I find them much better than stilettos. It was a big relief, all in all, making that change. And you can run away faster in Doc Martens.

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