People see me, and they see the suit, and they go: "you're not fooling anyone", they know I'm rock and roll through and through. But you know that old thing, live fast, die young? Not my way. Live fast, sure, live too bloody fast sometimes, but die young? Die old. That's the way- not orthodox, I don't live by "the rules" you know.

Telling someone with depression to pull themselves together is about as useful as telling someone with cancer to just stop having cancer

What will it feel like after you die? Exactly the same as it felt for those billions of years before you were born.

A joke isn't yours. It's used and you don't know where it's been.

People confuse the subject of the joke with the target of the joke, and they're very rarely the same.

Pol Pot - he rounded up anybody he thought was intellectual and had them executed. And how he told someone was intellectual or not was whether they wore glasses. If they're that clever, take them off when they see him coming!

With 'The Office' and 'Extras' I've always snuck in a little bit of heart and pathos - and drama, which is fun.