When I slid into comedy, naturally the first thing I said was, "hello, I am a washed up rapper."

I don't have the desire to be the best standup in the UK but I do have the desire to be the best at everything else I do in terms of writing and acting.

The future's unwritten. It's what we make of it.

You really come to life on stage but outside - this is a bit of a sad clown cliché - there is that element of loneliness you get from travelling and being on the road. Stand-ups can bring a lot of that to a dramatic role and make it work for them.

With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences.

I respect anyone who's honest to themselves and able to bring that into their work in an entertaining fashion.

I think everybody wants to be the best at what they do and for me I was never really there, plus it was in a time that just preceded the insanity of internet promotion around 2005 and 2006. Obviously through the digital revolution things have moved very quickly and a lot of artists got left behind.