Katy Wix

“In grief, there isn't time to want to be like someone else. Trauma means reacting in the moment, as you are. You have to be horribly yourself. Like in a novel where character is revealed through actions, crisis showed me who I was.”

“When I'm writing, I can't listen to anything with lyrics, because it's too distracting.”

“I think about this a lot - what if I had a channel? I'd commission the sketch group Sheeps to make tons of series.”

“I worry that I use writing as therapy too much actually, which can inspire great authenticity and verve but I do wish to spare the readers a full account of my own neuroses, so I try not to do it too much.”

“There's nothing like finally getting to write and perform your own material, it's always been the dream.”

“When I was about 15 and doing National Youth Theatre, we had to learn this incredible Georgian folk song called 'Tsintskaro'. I don't even know what the words mean, but when I'm in the shower, it's the tune that wants to come out.”

“Openly weeping in front of strangers was such a break from social norms that it was liberating.”

“Doing 'Not Going Out' has been fantastic and it's a great job, but it is different because you turn up and you're an actor for hire. It is quite fun to do and we all get on so well, we're like a really happy little family.”

“My mother used to always put Barry Manilow on in the car, so I know all the words to 'Copacabana'.”

“Most people I know struggle to take their own pain seriously, let alone talk about it. But loss is dangerous and some people don't survive it.”

“What I've written is all about real female voices and different types of women. Women who actually swear, and are allowed to be rude or intelligent. It would just be nice to have more 3D characters like this.”

“I think Chris Morris's stuff really got me. You felt like you were part of a special gang.”

“I lived in a yurt in Wales once for a couple of weeks. It was cold and stank.”

“It was a running joke in our family that my first crush when I was about four, was King Kong. My mum used to tease me about it all the time. It was the combination of brute strength and these massive, soulful, pained eyes - which I still look for in men - that absolutely got me.”

“I once dreamed that my day job was to push a huge boulder up Oxford Street every day, from 10am to 3pm. It was exhausting but the dream was to do with renegotiating the contract.”

“When you are a functioning depressive, you are able to get by, but only just. And there is always this worry that maybe people won't believe that you are struggling and need help, because your life isn't falling apart.”

“The Day Today' was the first show where I'd learn whole chunks by heart. I couldn't believe that adults were allowed to still be silly.”

“My parents were actors and my brother is a musician.”

“I'm a bit of a perfectionist, I think, so I always think 'Oh, I could have done that better. If only I'd slept better! I'm sure I can be funnier than this! I'm sure this could be funnier!' I'm always thinking that!”

“In my day, when I was just starting out, it felt like BBC Three was this natural home where you could try stuff out for a younger audience.”