I've no idea what they make of me. People usually don't recognise themselves in an impression.

Multimedia? As far as I'm concerned, it's reading with the radio on!

Politics now is rather like going into Starbucks for a coffee.

In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn't be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian.

It is almost impossible to say the name of Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawat without adding 'give a dog a bone'

When you consider what Tony Blair was saying about liberty, human rights and that sort of thing, it would be terribly revolutionary to sell the speeches he and Jack Straw made in 1994.

I had an Edinburgh, middle-class childhood and a public school education.

Now I'm instantly nervous about the demands of doing a weekly column.

I am just fascinated by this reassurance from a menacing figure. It is rather frightening.

Tony Blair has always said he will be judged by history. Now Alastair Campbell is history we await his judgment.

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.

A sandwich and a cup of coffee, and then off to violin-land, where all is sweetness and delicacy and harmony.

I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

I want girls to know that its okay when they grow up and their bodychanges.

But I can't really say there is too much modern music that I'm blown away by at this moment

Every time I get a role I think, 'I've actually fooled them again, I can't believe they keep falling for this!

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

I don't believe in God, but I miss him.

Environmental pollution is a blight on people's quality of life and a trouble that weighs on their hearts.

My parents always saw me as an artist, and that greatly influenced me

Never indulge in people who follow a negative path because they will take you with them on the road of ruin. Show them the way to positivism even if there's a risk of losing their friendship.