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

I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

I did six series for the BBC and that was enough. I've been writing for ten years, which is more challenging artistically.

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

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

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.