It probably says something really clinically terrible about my character that I need to get up on a stage and go 'Ra ra ra' in front of people.

I've got better things to do than read rubbish about myself.

It's true that I have spoken about doing a book before, but then everyone you speak to is planning to write a book.

I wish I was like you! You know startled by direct sunlight.

The sensible thing for everyone to do would be to write all their op-eds and think pieces now so they're ready the day after the election when [Donald] Trump is no longer in the picture. God, I can't wait for that. I hope he just goes away.

I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am wearing this'. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.

Religion is the yeast of death cakes. It is the most awful agent on a vulnerable mind. It's the refuge of alienated and lonely people. It's what people had before television. It yokes people together into an imaginary world. It is just people talking to their imaginary friends, at length. I wouldn't mind, but some of the people are world leaders.