My desire was never to be famous. It was to try and create something interesting musically if I could.

I saw Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd, which I thought was a masterpiece. Not that long ago, I listened to Blackstar by David Bowie and thought that was a masterpiece. Those are two incredibly talented people who've left their mark with us.

I will say it is great to have a woman in charge of the country.

Music is like comedy in that you can enjoy a very - for want of abetter word - sophisticated classical piece as much as you enjoy something that's very simple pop.

When I'm a man, I will be an astronaut, and find Peter Pan on the second star on the right.

I think we're all a party to this information all the time. It's every day, in a way we probably weren't a few years ago. We're more informed, which is a good thing because war is always there somewhere on the planet.

Comedy is a very big part of the English culture, the sense of humor; it's a very dominant trait.