Reading

Childhood

Writing Books for her Daughter

Scarlet Umbrella

The Characters

Playing Instruments

Q&A

"I nearly feigned a heart attack"

"Music can change your hair"

Simple Minds, tower blocks, chainsaws and Faust

Tim Burgess on a chance meeting with Steve Martin

Trying Weight Watchers

'Do you believe in fairies?'

The Haka at the Edinburgh Military Tattoo

Keeping it together onstage

Michelle Fisher: Picture the vast unknown

Marin Alsop on her speech at the Last Night of the Proms