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

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.

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

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

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

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.