I sang 'American Pie' a lot in my stage set. It had a knack of uniting an audience in a sing-along. It's a clever song about American history but wrapped in a fantastic tune.

Health-wise, I couldn't have said what my life expectancy would've been if I'd just carried on doing solid blocks of stand-up.

My first holiday to San Francisco in 1998-99 was supposed to be a two-week vacation but I ended up staying five weeks and nearly didn't come home.

Had I become a priest, the sermons would've been electric!

We all have days where we can't pronounce things or give it the emotion it deserves.

With stand-up you've just got that one chance. Audiences can be quite fickle.

I still give myself the right to be highly critical of others, though.