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

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

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

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.'

I always thought communism was crap, really.

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