Who needs drugs when you have Takeshi's Castle?

I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.

My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

I was thinking - if we get a cell with a trouser press, we can make cheese toasties.

It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

Kisses are a means to plant on another's lips a smile glossed with happiness.

Those who teach the most about humanity, aren’t always human.

I find that it is much easier now for women to be in any position because, as you see, they are presidents of banks, they are prime ministers, they are doctors. Everything is about women.

If you're going to be truly successful, then set yourself apart from everyone else. Go beyond the limits of what classifies the average person and be exceptional.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

Of course, I started really being a comics fan with the underground stuff in the '70s

How can we explain the perpetuity of envy--a vice which yields no return?

Write to register history, and name each thing. Write what should not be forgotten.

On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone.

I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul.