I think it's hypocritical to complain about the rise of China. For 50 years, we were telling everybody in the world that the big threat was Communism, so now the countries that were Communists are now rampant capitalists - and they're doing very well, in some ways much better than the UK. Well, we asked for it. We told them that's what you have to do, and they're doing it, buying up your biggest hotels in New York. You have to laugh.

I looked at what adults were doing and how they wanted to earn money, and I really didn't want to do that. I wanted to go away.

I don't do live things.

I consider myself a sit-down comedian really, as much as anything else. I love comedy. Life is a cosmic joke.

Im not, by nature, a collaborator. My biggest influences were people like painters and poets. These are solitary workers.

I have never felt in tune with the whole rock industry.

I'll probably lose every friend I've got, but I think the Russians are about the only people who have behaved decently in the conflict with the Ukraine. All the evidence to the contrary seems a bit bogus to me. NATO is trying to use Ukraine to isolate and cripple Russia, and that's completely crazy and very cruel. It seems to me that our side, the English and American people, really want it to go bad there. But there's no need for it to have done so. At least that's what I think. You won't hear a lot of that on Fox News.