I'm going to name drop like an idiot now, but Bono rang me up once, right? I don't know how he got my number, but I, ever so stupidly, and obviously thought it was one of my mates mocking about. So I was like, "Yeah, whatever." And it was him, but I even went to him, "That's not even a good Irish accent!"
Noel FieldingI visited a friend in Leicester recently. It was 4am and we all ran around in a circle, six of us. Itโs the most fun Iโve had since i was seven. And I thought: itโs not about drink, or drugs, or fancy clubs. Itโs about running around in your socks, changing direction in a front room in Leicester.
Noel FieldingWhen you start, it's not to do with the material so much. It's more to do with how you can control a crowd and make friends with an audience and sell your brand of humor.
Noel FieldingI had always drawn, every day as long as I had held a pencil, and just assumed everyone else had tooโฆArt had saved me and helped me fit inโฆArt was always my saving graceโฆComedy didnโt come until much later for me. Iโve always tried to combine the two things, art and comedy, and couldnโt make a choice between the two. It was always my ambition to make comedy with an art-school slant, and art that could be funny instead of po-faced.
Noel FieldingI find it depressing that people think you have to be on drugs to watch [my stuff], thatโs a cop out, use your brain, use your imagination.
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