How seriously do you take yourself, how seriously do you take others and how seriously do you expect others to take you?
EW: Basically I take people seriously and I take myself seriously up to a certain point. I’ve learnt that the ability to be able to laugh about my own stupidity or about someone else’s stupidity makes it easier to accept you have a problem; accept things which we want to hide, such as embarrassment or ridicule; or hide the fact that we feel small and little in comparison to all these other grand people; or come to terms with personal tragedies.
I found it better to be able to laugh about these things than to take them too seriously – which would pull me down.