Everything becomes magnified at night. Sounds travel in a different way, it's dark, and everything seems far more spooky.

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

My doctor told me I should get out of breath three times a week, so I took up smoking.

I like to read my diary occasionally to remind myself what a miserable, alienated old sod I used to be.

There's something people do to you when they bully you that makes you feel like you're on your own. But don't keep things inside, it's really damaging if you do.

Usually, what people in the public eye do is pick two charities and just exclusively work for them. But that means you have to turn people down all the time, so I try and do something for everyone that asks me, at least once.

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.