A necessity: Ventolin. I'm an asthmatic so I cannot go anywhere without it. Every time you go out the door, you check whether you have it.

A luxury: Another person so that I can share things when it all goes wrong. If you have someone with you, it stops you having a sense-of-humour failure and there is someone to laugh with and help keep up your morale.

A memento: I do have loads of things from my travels, but I don't consciously take anything with me. What happens is that my handbag gradually fills up, wears out and then I get a new one. My bag is my one security symbol when travelling. It has all my necessities inside.

If only: Late check-outs in hotels. When I DJ at clubs, it inevitably ends very late and I get back to the hotel in the middle of the night. I try to bargain with hotels so that I can stay later than the 10am check-out, and sometimes it works. But hotels should be more flexible with check-out times. Then I could have a proper night's sleep.

• Wicked Speed, Annie Nightingale's autobiography, is published by Pan at £6.99