My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

I do have a residual belief that, if at all possible, you should try not to mock the weak.

In Britian we have a free press. It's not a pretty press, but it's free. The people who can't bear the Daily Mail, they say: 'you should ban it'. No, no, no, no, you don't ban it... you don't buy it.

I've seen the Pokémon movie, which is probably the worst movie ever made on any subject ever.

All the libel lawyers will tell you there's no libel any more, that everyone's given up.

Modest about our national pride - and inordinately proud of our national modesty.

I get paid to do what I enjoy, not that common a condition.

There's an awful lot of terrible television which I could do, but I mostly stick to Have I Got News for You.

The best comedy is where you attack the strong, not the weak.

You have a huge amount of confidence when you're younger, which slowly ebbs away for the rest of your life. You think: 'No problem. I can do that. Why shouldn't I do it?'

I've got a very peculiar sort of fame, based on being on the telly. It doesn't mean you have the lifestyle people expect.

I don't find these technical things like flowers and chocolates romantic at all. I think Valentine's Day makes no sense.

You become a reader by reading the literature, not by reading the handbooks about it.

Just promise me you'll think of me everytime you look up in the sky and see a star

My parents wanted to light my artistic candle. But over time, the definition of 'the arts' began to stretch. And as I got older, they suddenly realized, Oh, my God, we're the parents of Iggy Pop.

When I ask people to give, I can't be on television if they don't; I can't help people, if I don't - I mean, it takes money.

I've never understood the 'things to do before you die' idea. If I was ill, I'd be in no mood to have a swim with a dolphin.

Truth is multi-dimensional; it depends on the perspective you view from.

How can we thankful? We can only love the Heart of Jesus more generously and by our union with Him, become the most humble.

It is well indeed for out land that we of this generation have learned to think nationally.

In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.