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.

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

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.

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.

Who needs drugs when you have Takeshi's Castle?

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