1. My nephew, Taylor, is five years old, and the reason I am still alive. He look a bit like my mum, and loves games and Mario. He's as chatty as his mum, which will cause so much trouble when he's a teenager and gets a bit gobby. He's so nice, he's the sweetest little thing, and wouldn't hurt anyone, he only wrestles with his mums boyfriend Tom. He asks me about my scars on my arms (from cutting) and often asks me if they hurt, and doesn't want to touch my arms in case he hurts me. Sometimes he'll just suddenly say 'I love you' and I'll want to cry.

2. My mum. My mum drove for six hours through storms to visit me in the hospital when I had liver failure. I was in hospital for ten days, she made the trip twice.

3. Churchill. For many reasons. If only because he took meetings while he was in the bath. Prime Minister of Great Britain in the forties and fifties, through the second world war.

4. William Beveridge, who wrote the Beveridge report. The proposals of this report were the basis of the formation of the National Health Service in Britain. Which may be crap, but is free.

5. Gorden Strachen, genius Scottish footballer, one time manager of Coventry City football club, who once said on tv, we kept winning our games consecutively because of our coach driver. He was a great manager and a great interview. Still is.

6. Dylan Thomas. Welsh poet, lived in and wrote about Cardigan at some times. Fucking genius. I aspire to be half as good as him, and half as drunk.

7. Lady Godiva, who rode naked through the streets of Coventry to try and convince her husband, The Earl Of Mercia to lower the crippling taxes on the tenants of the city. There is a statue of her in Coventry, and clock that features her going around a loop when the hour chimes and the peeping Tom popping out to look at her.

8. Barak Obama. Cause he kicks ass. Nuff said.

9. Dame Millicent Fawcett. She was a suffragist and a campaigner for women's rights in the last 19th century and early 20th century, concentrating on better higher education opportunities for women and led the National Union of Women's Suffrage Societies, who campaigned and introduced a lot of Parliamentary bills.

10. Robert Downey Jr. Five years clean and sober and hot as hell.