If you have enough money to be comfortable it makes life a lot easier and that's undeniable. But I think happiness is more elusive.

At college, I felt frustrated thinking three years was a long time and I just wanted a job but afterwards I was in employment the whole time. I got into a theatre company and started doing stand-up gigs for cash, so I lived hand-to-mouth, but there was always enough to pay the bills.

I'm quite lucky, because I've got a small, decorative concrete pig.

I'm English and as such I crave disappointment. That's why I buy Kinder Surprise.

Aldous Huxley took the drug mescaline and then chronicled his experience in the book The Doors of Perception. Now, I don't actually think that's the first thing he wrote: he probably wrote 'my brain is melting' ten thousand times, but it was the book that the critics latched on to.

I suppose you could be a member of a terrorist organization in a non-violent way, in the laundry or the catering department.

I think we've missed a trick there. We could develop wheat with the properties of Velcro... to catch whatever it is that's forming those crop circles! But then the spaceship would have to have the corresponding Velcro, so it's a bit of a long shot.