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

A lot of those comics can't hold down relationships and they've got no other life apart from performing. They sleep in their Jags and a lot of them can't even talk. All they can do is tell gags.

Everyone I used to work with is still alive and can afford expensive lawyers.

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

I don't think I'd ever get thin, but I don't see why I should necessarily think that I couldn't You can't live your life for your routines.

Most of the Communists I knew were nice people.

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.