Dad loved movies and I grew up with British comedy. My ultimate favourite is Peter Sellers.

My Dad was from Liverpool, and he picked it up in the army. He'd often come out with this stuff.

And I loved the whole idea behind the story, which is that you're beautiful, so don't let other people tell you that you're not just because you don't look like the people in magazines. Or because you're not that weird ideal body image that's out there right now.

I once thought I had mono for an entire year. It turned out I was just really bored.

People ask me to record their answering machines all the time. I love it. It's a miracle to me that people want to hear back those characters.

Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

At every point I wished that I was born English. They need to make it colder in here. You could hang meat in this room. But, yeah...I grew up in a very English household. My folks were from Liverpool. I've said this before, but there is nothing more English than an Englishman that no longer lives in England.