When I was 17, my friends and I threw a fashion show for a breast cancer charity. Breast cancer is something my mum went through when I was 14, so prevention is very close to my heart. Our singer, who was performing during the fashion show, dropped out at the last minute so I had to step in. It’s on video, and my sister always brings it up.

Being on the cover of a magazine at 18 with the slogan: “Did she ruin The Godfather?”

Going to pieces while meeting John Squire, the lead guitarist of the Stone Roses, backstage after a gig. I completely lost the ability to speak. I told him I had the same guitars as he’d just used on stage, and when he asked me which ones, the words completely went out of my head and there was a huge pause, and then his wife tapped his shoulder and he wandered off.

I did a corporate gig early in my career, and they opened the buffet in the middle of my set and everybody left.

The character of Frasier Crane – he's given me hours of laughter and an appreciation of the finer things in life.

Selling low-grade cookery books in west London office buildings.

As a well-balanced and functioning thin man.

"Which side shall I comb it over?"

Boothby Graffoe calling up to pester me into promoting his new album, available on Amazon and iTunes.

Jumping on the seats of a deserted carriage on a London-bound train from Canterbury in 1989.