America had an emphasis on the individual and so education became available for everyone.
I'll never forget my first experience of swede. It was at school and I thought I was getting mashed potato. I've never got over it.
Am I allowed to call myself working-class now? Because obviously I'm now very rich.
All disc jockeys are without talent. Noel Edmonds - I can't stand Noel Edmonds.
When I was nine I spent a lot of my time reading books about the history of comedy, or listening to the Goons or Hancock, humour from previous generations.
When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.
I think having an outsider's viewpoint is interesting and good, especially for a comedian.
We have the beginnings of feminism starting to rear its head, where all of that got blown up. The whole point of going to college became not to find a husband - screw that! - feminism became, "You don't want anything about a man to be defining you, and you don't want your relationship to define, you! You don't want a relationship to be your happiness. You certainly don't want marriage to be the sole determining reason you live".
The answer is never the answer. What's really interesting is the mystery. If you seek the mystery instead of the answer, you'll always be seeking. I've never seen anybody really find the answer. They think they have, so they stop thinking. But the job is to seek mystery, evoke mystery, plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom. The need for mystery is greater than the need for an answer.
The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.
There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was.