You have to have a thick skin, yes. If you're going to do something as foolhardy as standup, you've got to be able to take it on the chin if someone has a go at you.
In my twenties, I floated around for years, doing the odd theatre job but mainly leading a hedonistic lifestyle, getting intoxicated in plenty of different ways in plenty of different places.
I discovered I'm 60 per cent Viking. Well, more Danish, I suppose. I'm also two-and-a-half per cent Neanderthal.
I think people are quite refreshed with politicians who aren't concerned with what Arctic Monkeys track they like, but with the day-to-day, dull business of politics.
When the sun shines in Britain there's no finer place on Earth.
People perceive me as this kind of hippy intellectual, reflecting and communing with nature or in a pyramid somewhere chanting. Really, no. I love speed, fast things, quad and road bikes, and bombing down a mountain.
I don't think any comic could say there isn't a bit of them that doesn't want to show off.
As a young man, the temptation was to drink the minibar dry. I did all that - now I prefer to get outdoors.
The two worst enemies of comedy are lack of sleep and not having had a decent meal.
I prefer the simple things and I love walking in the countryside, or going camping... but simplicity is hard. It's easier to over-complicate things.
As a comedian and satirist you have to be neutral, because everyone's fair game. Once you show bias, you lose that.
I'm an omnivore, although I am trying to eat less meat. I went vegetarian for about two years, then I suddenly got a craving one morning and that was it.
As I get older, I have a very strong urge to know about stuff. I want to learn the names of trees and birds; that's the sort of knowledge I want to pass on to my son.
Normally, with stand-up, it's quite solitary, you write the material on your own, you perform it on your own, it's all very much on you. Your own thoughts. You have to sort of modulate your own performance.
The Lib Dems are such terrible ditherers.
Fatherhood made everything more straightforward. I was relieved that no longer did I have to agonise over what meaning I had in my life.
People are obsessed by how I look.
I hate getting ill, it irritates me so I try to stay reasonably healthy.
I've always been reasonably upbeat about most things.
Paddle boarding: it's the closest you get to walking on water.
