People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

I suppose the common idea of me is that I'm going to be someone who's hyper and cracking jokes all the time, but people who meet me are soon disabused of that notion.

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

I feel sorry for many politicians we expect them to be completely consistent and moralised when we're not.