When I first became famous in the United Kingdom it was helpful because it meant there wasn't a spite of 'this bloke's a drug addict,' 'this bloke f**ks all these women' because I was just making jokes about all those things already, so it made me some kind of incorruptible indefatigable, indestructible force.

I really, really love children and I think probably among children is when I feel mostly berated. It's not like I feel like oh, there's some children here. I have to tone it down. I go nuts with children especially when I ain't got none. So when I'm round my mates' children, I jest them kids up first. I swear at them, I get more worked up, I say crazy stuff to them, fill their heads with nonsense and then I leave them.

As a producer, you've got to be involved in helping out with solving problems.

We continue to be spilled on by consumerism even though we know it doesn't make us happy.

Socialism isn't a dirty word; it just means sharing. Really, it's just the bureaucratic arm of Christianity.

All penguins are the same below the surface, which I think is as perfect an analogy as we're likely to get for the futility of racism.

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.