One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.

I'm actually about as famous as a fourth division footballer from the 70s.

I write all the time, but you just want to be careful what you put out. That's all. You want to have the confidence that you've done what you need to do to it, because otherwise it's an exercise in vanity.

You know, just sometimes, in between the first cigarette with coffee in the morning to that four hundredth glass of cornershop piss at 3am, you do sometimes look at yourself and think...This is fantastic. I'm in heaven.

I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.

I know there's similar dissatisfaction in America. There's a lot of white people who come from blue collar backgrounds and who feel ill-equipped and badly served by modern economics and the modern job market.

I do not walk around imaging myself to be intimidating or smart.