I don't get recognized much, and am very happy with that. The fans I have met have all been delightful.

People think writing a children's book is something you could do in an afternoon but it's actually really hard.

We've got 12-year-old boys dressing up as transvestites.

It can be difficult to be subtle and not cartoony in prosthetics. But when you see characters like Bubbles and Desiree from 'Little Britain' on screen, it makes all the hard work worth it. It's such fun watching those transformations.

I still enjoy my life, and I feel like I've achieved enough things that if I never did anything again, I'd feel confident that I'd still have made my mark in some way. But maybe the self-loathing bit is the element that makes you strive for more. Makes you strive to be better.

Ricky Gervais would have you believe otherwise, but Sacha Baron Cohen is the most successful British comedian in the world.

I thrive off the company of others, I love being sociable.