Margaret Atwood: she’s an empathic human being who writes books that help me be a better person.

My father, because he's a positive man with an enormous amount of compassion. My mother passed away four days ago.

Sir Alex Ferguson is the most impressive person I’ve met in terms of charisma and achievement.

My friend Josie Naughton, the co‑founder and CEO of the charity Choose Love, which supports refugees and displaced people. She left her job working for Coldplay to dedicate her life to this cause.

Oversensitivity.

Now, because of my marriage and because since September 2019 I’ve been free of clinical depression.

The people I hurt when I was suffering with addiction to alcohol and cocaine.

Shitting myself in New York last November. I was wearing cream trousers. We were going to see my son Matty and his band, the 1975, at Madison Square Garden, and I was walking through the streets, enjoying the sunshine, pretending I was in some kind of video – throwing my hat into the New York sky like Mary Tyler Moore. I saw a couple of people turn and look at me. Now, although I’m not famous in New York, whenever Matty’s there I do get recognised as his mum, so I’m smiling and waving at them. I went back to the hotel room and bent over to get something out of the suitcase, and my husband said: “Do you realise you’ve shat yourself?”

Funny, annoying and kind.

Stopping being such a helicopter parent and worrying about these grownup children’s lives. It drives me mad. And I am having therapy. If I could stop thinking that I should be their first port of call for everything, it would free my head up a bit.