People talk to old people like they're children.'Oh you're very old aren't you?' Yeah I'm old. I'm not stupid.

I always appreciated my teachers. When I was 16, I gave them the greatest gift I could think of. I dropped out of school.

Another one of President Barack Obama's nominees is having tax issues, which proves one thing: The Democrats like raising the taxes, but they hate paying them.

Larry King has been married more times than Henry the Eighth. We used to have that rhyme to keep track of them. 'Divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived.' With Larry I think it goes, 'Divorced, beheaded, divorced, escaped. Zombie, lesbian, disappeared, inflatable.

If you watch cooking shows on cable, they have lots of British people. Because when you think good cooking, you immediately think Britain.

I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.

I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living.