Most comedians I know are quite serious, anxious people who find life rather difficult. As a consequence, they make people laugh.

When I first started listening to music intently as a teenager, I was always sitting there with a biro or a pencil, drawing. That's how I absorbed it all.

People's intelligence tends to be in inverse proportion to their number. People don't tend to get smarter as they get into bigger groups.

The Beatles were something everyone had in common; this was thirty years ago, there was Dr. Who and everybody knew who the Daleks were and there was The Beatles and everybody knew who George Harrison was.

I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either.

If I played just one song from every album, I would be onstage for two and a half hours. No one wants a show that long.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.