I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!

I'm pretty good for an old geek.

There is no greater symbol of the artistic spirit of Scotland than the Mackintosh building. But more than that it is a symbol of where art belongs, rising as it does out of the heart of a great city. A mighty castle on a hill, it is a part of me, and of all Glaswegians.

Chris Addison is a stand-up comic, but his ability to act is extraordinary, to be so natural, I've taken 25 years just getting to that level.

Keep going and don't give up. You're doing wonderfully. You'll know how to fly this thing eventually.

I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.

A girl once came to my beery flat in Kensal Green, opened the blinds and cooked me breakfast. I married her.