Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

I don't like violence. I get sick from violence. Do you think people are excited by violence?

[On Princess Anne:] Such an active, outdoorsy lass. She loves nature in spite of what it did to her.

I have my standards. They're low, but I have them.

Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed.

I think the essence of humor has not changed. It's all about surprise, facilitating follows. But the context of humor has changed. Previously, the jokes were more related to current issues, political. Today people make about each other either funny or about people like Kim Kardashian. It's brutal. Everything is so much vielschmutziger.

Sometimes you have to make your own opportunities, and that's why I'm on TV. I wasn't going to sit around anymore, waiting for the damn phone to ring. I had to create my own place - I've always done that.