Lots of people come up to me and call me Sir Bruce now. Interviewers call me Sir with every question, but I never make a point of making people call me Sir. It doesn't matter to me, though; it was a great honour to be knighted. I'm very proud of it.

It could still be a good night if you play your cards right.

That Mick Jagger, I feel sorry for him. After all these years he still can't get no satisfaction.

No one - apart from my agent, perhaps - should leave one of my shows in tears.

Just doing any kind of work - even an interview for breakfast television - makes me feel happy.

My biggest regret is that my mother didn't see me walk on to that London Palladium stage, being the star she always wanted me to be. But I always say that when she reached Heaven, she had a word with a few agents.

Some people hate the sight of me as soon as they see me on television. They loathe the look of me, and I accept that from the days of variety. I would walk on and some people would open a newspaper and think, 'He's first on, so he can't be any good.' I accept that.