We don't know where we get our ideas from. What we do know is that we do not get them from our laptops.

He who laughs most, learns best.

Oh, I could spend my life having this conversation - look - please try to understand before one of us dies

Most of the bad taste I've been accused of has been generic bad taste; it's been making fun of an idea as opposed to a person.

British press think entirely in clichés, and when they do come across creative work, they think that it must be based on something, because they don't realize that you can create things that aren't based on things.

When you get to my age, and I'm 66 now, you realize that the world is a madhouse and that most people are operating in fantasy anyway. So once you realise that, it doesn't bother you much.

I think that money spoils most things, once it becomes the primary motivating force.