It's interesting, in the U.K., I'm known for doing comedy things, which often doesn't translate to the U.S.

If technology is a drug – and it does feel like a drug – then what, precisely, are the side-effects?

The biggest teenage taboo is being strait-laced. It's easy to tell a researcher you went to a house party that turned into an orgy. It's less easy to say you like eating toast and watching QI.

My theory is that we used to have several personalities, and now we're encouraged to have one online.

Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning.

That's not something that we've gone in thinking 'Right! How are we going to examine that now?' It's just when you take a step back you see that they're actually all sort of in that mode.

Whenever anything nice happens in the world I always expect something appalling to happen immediately afterwards.

I'm actually quite pro-technology, but I'm a worrier, so I like to envision worst-case scenarios.

Technology by default became the thing that was a new thing that had swept in and was altering it everything.

The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.

In summary, our world is doomed.

Go out in the woods, go out. If you don't go out in the woods nothing will ever happen and your life will never begin.

When we see things through our fixed, false beliefs, science becomes superstition.

God is always creating something new, He wants to give us new information and reveal to us new secrets in order to exalt us over this world

We don't fight about music. We don't fight about artistic direction. The things like that we could fight about, we really don't. We are pretty lucky for that.

Efficiency is anything that scores.

I am absolutely desperate to win a Super Bowl.

I definitely like the oddballs. There's a song called 'Little Thing,' which is the only song that I have recorded that has no words. And it's the one that I get past my critic inside me.

Carelessness with details sinks more careers than anyone will admit.

Nobody hates hipsters more than hipsters.

I cannot think of the results of your labors without shame at the little we do.