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If your ceiling is falling down, don't you call someone in? I apply the same principle to myself.

One sometimes feels a guest of one's time and not a member of its household.

I come from a very working-class background, so my family would have been downstairs in the past, as opposed to upstairs. People are often quite surprised to hear that, that I'm not actually posh.

It takes a certain personality to thrive as a member of the House.

We depend a lot on the guy upstairs in dire times, in addressing our concerns and looking for help.

It's very easy to say no to leaving the house.

Do you know what you call those who use towels and never wash them, eat meals and never do the dishes, sit in rooms they never clean, and are entertained till they drop? If you have just answered, 'A house guest,' you're wrong because I have just described my kids.

Just because you can leap off a drum kit doing a scissors kick while hitting a chord, people expect you to be an extrovert socially. But I'm not always comfortable with the idea of small talk at a party.