However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.

I always thought communism was crap, really.

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.

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

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

I like the south of Spain, notably for the Moorish influence and the weather.

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