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

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.'

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

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

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

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