I don't do plays without jokes anymore. I've retired from those plays. I think it's bad manners to invite people to sit in the dark for two and a half hours and not tell them the joke.

I'm probably the only person who actually remembers pirate radio.

As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.

I have a perfectly average skewed perception of myself. We often don't know what we're like.

Anyone who can do the splits and come back up on the backbeat, as James Brown and Prince can, has my eternal respect. Prince, who is a genius of the highest order, can come back up while singing and playing the guitar.

I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.

Never go anywhere you have to wear brown shoes.