I'm terrible at reading fiction. I don't have the attention span - it's awful.

You sort of perform your personality, I guess, to everyone on some level.

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

On the other hand [making a string of one-off episodes], there's a real freedom, because you're kind of reinventing the show every week.

I've always had a bad attention span.

Many people find bald, unvarnished truths so disturbing, they prefer to ram their heads in the sand and start dreaming at the first sign of scientific reality.

Being slagged off is good for you. It thickens the skin and strengthens the backbone.