Nostalgia is the bane of rock 'n' roll. He had the courage to let it all hang out. . . . He was a considerable talent.
I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.
It is almost impossible to say the name of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawat without adding 'give a dog a bone'
It is a weird thing, because most people tend to get more conservative as they get older, but I find myself going the opposite way. I am sure that by the end I will be selling Marxist pamphlets on the Holloway Road.
I used to do my Nelson Mandela voice to blag restaurant tables in Cape Town. It rarely worked. Now what a great city that is.
In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.
When George Bush finally leaves the White House, the satire industry will briefly join the rest of the economy in recession. It will certainly be the end of an era.
I used to breakdance, be a b-boy. I love hip-hop from back in the graffiti days, growing up listening to Michael Jackson. Loved it from birth. I know it all, from Afrika Bambaataa, the roots and the beginning. I came up in a good era.
If I am going to be a poet at all, I am going to be POET and not NEGRO POET.
Sometimes if I'm stuck on something, I'll have a drink, and it'll get me inspired and ready to keep going. But the trick to that, again, is that you have to drink responsibly! I've learned how to use it sometimes to help my creative process.
I love to be pushed so I can prove myself, because once again, I will.