I swam at school a lot. Long-distance swimming in pools, and diving, then when we moved to Hastings when I was 13 I used to swim in the sea all the time; I loved it out of season and when it was rough.

I think there's a far more general audience now because I've done more populist stuff on telly.

I'm a Luddite with computers, and I'm slightly worried about being hacked as well.

I did try when I wasn't doing the singing to do as much comedy as I could because I thought with Comic Relief you are duty bound to anyway.

Most of us manage the fateful things that happen in our lives the best we can, certainly not to a Stalin-like 20-year plan.

There are lots of people who believe that caricature of me the tabloids created, so they think they don't like me.

I'm not really a churchy person, although I do think Jesus was a good bloke.