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.

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

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.

I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

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

My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.