I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.

I'll work for whoever wants to hire me. Even the jewelry channel.

I never thought I want to do anything, really, except not go to work properly and turn up at the same place every day and eat sandwiches in the same canteen, if I can possibly help it, as I don't think I'd be very good at it.

I've always wanted to visit [Washington]. The Smithsonian has some fantastic archival material on blues music, which I'm really into. There's a ton of stuff I want to do there. but it just never happened.

I think of myself as a theatre comic instead of club comic because I tend to talk for a bit before I start being funny. I don't really do the one-liners and five second bits or whatever. But it's good to work stuff out sometimes.

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

Women are like canoes, full of soup. At first everyone is suspicious but then everyone wants one.