It seems easier to make a career out of comedy now than it was in the 1980s.

Now, as a comic, if you're vaguely amusing you can go straight into TV, then you play the O2 and then everyone's sick of you.

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

I liked 35 and in both my novels that is the age of the lead characters. I tried making them my age but they just seemed to keep moaning about stuff.

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

If someone starts agreeing with me, I don't like it. Out of pique, I become something else.