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

People used to think I was just a shouty comic but I was doing stuff about Sartre.

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

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

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

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

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