I am 5ft 6in and weigh about 11 stone - about a stone overweight, but that's because of my brain.

I don't get many hecklers now but answering them is an art form in itself.

When people say to me don't the years go fast I have to be honest and say that whereas I don't realise where they go in the long term, I pack so much into a year it seems to take forever.

I am still working on patter and presentation.

Even though the vast majority of my work was outside television, the amount of creation and inventing that went into the TV shows was non stop and, unknown to me, a great strain.

I've always loved writing. Doing that at the same time as playing music can be tiring.

Deep down, you see, I long to be arcane, esoteric. I would love to confound people with their own language.

Once you establish a look, and once everybody recognizes that look as your look, you never have to think about fashion again.

[A]s you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow.

But that from us aught should ascend to Heav'n So prevalent as to concern the mind Of God, high-bless'd, or to incline His will, Hard to belief may seem; yet this will prayer.

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

Learning is defined as a change in behavior. You haven't learned a thing until you take action and use it.

The guards didn't carry weapons. Malcolm X had insisted that the guards not carry firearms that day [February 21, 1965].

Actions have consequences.

Where we have reasons for what we believe, we have no need of faith; where we have no reasons, we have lost both our connection to the world and to one another.