Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.

Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.

British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I went off the rails a bit really, 'cause there was no training for it. They didn't do fame in schools.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.