I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it.

Volvo — they're boxy but they're good.

Maybe the memory does play tricks. Increasingly, I'm thinking, 'What was their name? I knew that name yesterday.' I think that's what happens. At some point, I'll forget that I ever worked with Peter Cook, I suppose, and Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller.

In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.

When I think of Canada I think of tonic water.

It seems that a lot of people, who haven't known of me as a pianist, think I've just started off as a comedian. And so for them the piano was something extra. But, of course, playing the piano was something that came before all of what's happened now.

I haven't had that many women - only as many as I could lay my hands on.