We filmed 'Plebs' in Bulgaria, I made a lot of friends there, the architecture and culture are amazing - so to hear stories that they're here as criminals to sponge off the state, it was hurtful.

There's something about the word springboard I don't like. It's got too many negative connotations.

If people ask me for one-liners I always say: 'Hoovering. That sucks.'

A lot of my close friends call me autistic.

I've always been interested by anybody with any thoughts as to what it is we are all doing here. It's fairly confusing and if I spend all my time watching Arsenal and the 'The Traitors' I'm never going to find out.

If you are genuinely writing to Time Out for financial advice I'd stop worrying about ending up horribly poor and just accept it as an inevitable truth.

The impact of the creative industries, of design and architecture in particular, are of course economic and they are a great export opportunity.

To curb the machine and limit art to handicraft is a denial of opportunity.

The worst thing about being the laureate has been the attitude of a tiny minority of adults who haven't liked some of the things I'm supposed to have said and who have used it as an opportunity to be verbally abusive and nasty, but I haven't let it rule my world!

I don't mind failing, because I see it as an opportunity to try again and eventually succeed. Having this attitude and sharing it with young girls encourages them.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

On my 7th birthday, in 1970, I left India and came to America: to this land of incredible opportunity.