George Harrison's passing was really sad, but it does make the afterlife seem much more attractive.

I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.

I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.

I wanted to be an explorer, but gradually found the world had been explored and that there was nowhere left, really. Once they climbed Everest in 1953, when I was 10 years old, I thought, 'Well, that's pretty much it now.' But the idea of travelling and exploring and adventure was very strong.

I always wanted to be an explorer, but - it seemed I was doomed to be nothing more than a very silly person.

I'd got over playing a character. People accepted who I was, and if I was incompetent and useless, they felt quite endeared to me.

There is nothing better than playing a scene with John Cleese or Maggie Smith. It's electric. But I don't think I'm the sort of person who needs to have an outer ego in order to produce something. I realised that through the travel programmes.