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.

For me, the showbiz memoir is uninteresting - you want to tell people something they don't know about.

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

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

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

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.