We invented words; we'll tell you how they're supposed to sound.

I get nostalgic for British negativity. There is an inherent hope and positive drive to New Yorkers. When you go back to Britain, everybody is just running everything down. It's like whatever the opposite of a hug is.

The British press are a group of unremitting scumbags. And sometimes they use that scumbaggery to good ends, and often not.

I really love stand-up. I'm more than happy to do it for nothing. I've come to America to do it for nothing. It's the American Dream: Work for free.

My family are from Liverpool, so I have some twang there - I have a Midlands accent, and I was raised about an hour north of London, so my voice is a mess. Although, to American ears, it sounds like the crisp language of a queen's butler.

Democracy is like a tambourine, not everyone can be trusted with it.

British people would die for their right to drink themselves to death.