Children are the most honest critics. They will say "You're funny", but also "You're pathetic - go away."

It's easy to smile when you have a squirrel's intellect.

I'm just trying to understand what's around me as much as anyone else is, really. To draw a bead on a moving target.

I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that, or it's like this, and that's really up to them, that's fine, but I don't sit around all day analysing it. I just try and enjoy a show and interest myself because if I don't do that then I won't interest anybody else.

I'm just a guy who happens to work in public from time to time. I've built a reputation as an established comic, not as a celebrity - a celebrity is someone who is famous but doesn't do anything.

I don't go to different countries to criticise their political system and tell them what they should be doing - what do I know?

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.