Name anything - high-definition TV, computer obsolescence - and I'm pretty much annoyed by it.

Being a mod is more of a sensibility than a style.

You could say I'm a mod, but with a small 'm'; I don't wear a parka, but I do question what I wear and what I listen to, which is what it's all about.

I'm not posh or common, I'm in between.

I love that pre-mod jazz look of the late Fifties, the Steve McQueen style that influenced the British modernists.

Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I'm concerned.

I've got a stag weekend coming up and I've said I'm not doing anything more than a few drinks. I won't have it. I'll go home and watch Antiques Roadshow.

I hate the fact that so much of our life is computerised rather than mechanised.

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Sherlock and Watson are a love story

Disappointment is an endless wellspring of comedy inspiration.

For the time being—”He emphasized each word. “I’ll be the only one climbing through your window.

That man would have chipped away at your heart bit by bit until there was nothing left. It may have been bruised, but at least it's whole.

There's many a true word spoken in jest; scientists are abominably solemn; therefore scientists miss many a true word.

Stand-up will always come first. I've been doing it for 22 years, and nothing compares to that connection you have with the audience. It's euphoric.

The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event.

We have very primitive emotions,” he said . “It's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though.

Everyone in our society has had to make a contribution towards dealing with the debts.

Of a good beginning cometh a good end.

Civilization is an enormous improvement on the lack thereof.

To focus on how I'm doing more than what Christ has done is Christian narcissism