I don't really have the gift of the sustained narrative that you need to write a book. I've tried a couple of times, and it just doesn't work. But I get some good passages, so what I'm going to do is just take sections out of them.

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.

Playing acoustic and line drawings are the two things I'm most competent at.

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

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.

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.