I went to China for a brief working visit, and I thought that Shanghai was interesting, but Beijing totally grabbed me.

If you go on stage with an agenda, you have to accept not everyone's going to agree with it.

All my shows are therapy, trying to navigate interesting subjects so I can work them out and to be honest and say some things are beyond the wit of this man.

Christians, you and your churches don't get to be millionaires while other people have nothing at all. They're your bloody rules! Either stick to them or abandon the faith.

I became hugely overweight and then hated myself because it was a form of self-abuse, something over which I had no control. I think the thing compulsive over-eaters want to achieve is that stuffed-full Christmas afternoon feeling.

I spend my jollity on stage, so there is less in my own life.

The most successful comics are always the hardest-working ones.