“Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.”

“I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.”

“I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.”

“Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.”

“Talent is an accident of genes, and a responsibility.”

“I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.”