Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding

I played football for a long time when I was a kid, and then I went to art college and turned my back on it. Because of that, my toes are mangled; they've been broken. They're like hooves or talons. They're disgusting. I'd never get them out.

Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding

When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.

Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding

I hate my feet. I don't like my hands, either: they're like lions' paws. When I was in the Boosh, in a catsuit and gold heels, I was constantly thinking, 'I hate the way I look.' I should have just enjoyed myself, because that was as good as it was going to get.

Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding

People like to put you a box. I've always been the wrong shape. Maybe you are, too. I think all the people who are wrong shapes for boxes should go out and march into the streets singing, 'We are the shapes! We don't fit the box.'

Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding

When I was 14, I had a job in a cake shop. I got caught by the boss, lying down eating cake, and was sacked on my first day.

Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding

For the second series of 'Luxury Comedy', I tried to drop the 'Noel Fielding' from it. I thought that would make it less like a solo project and more like a show. Also, it would probably have been easier to take the reaction to the first series if it had been a project rather than my name and face!

Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding

The Monkees? I heard that they were quite into their party scene at one point.

Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding

You're still young. Don't panic. It's hard to know what you should be doing in your 20s. Try different things, have some fun, and see what happens.

Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding

I wanted to create the weirdest show ever made on television - a punky, prog-rock nightmare of lurid colours.

Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding

Over the years, I've trained my hair to do what I say, and it's usually well behaved. I often reward my hair with special treats when it pleases me.

Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding

I was quite a shy kid, but I was quite funny at school, and I was really into art. In our class, there were two of us who were good at drawing, and my teacher was like, 'He's going to make a wonderful artist one day, and Noel can make everyone laugh.'

Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding

I'll be seen as eccentric, like Vic Reeves or Spike Milligan, which would be amazing. But I suppose I'm in this weird transitional period between having some success doing weird stuff and not being eccentric yet. I'm in limbo.

Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding

You can't please all of the people all of the time; you can only please some of the people some of the time.

Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding

They were too young to be proper parents. They never said, 'You've got to go to bed or you'll be tired for school'. They didn't mind - they let me stay up.

Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding

I quite like bacon sandwiches because they're colourful. Mashed potato on toast is fine. But colourful and easy to eat is best.

Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding

I've got this rep as a party boy, but the only show I've ever missed was when I had food poisoning from an Australian duck curry. I was puking buckets.

Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding

I love David Suchet. I'm obsessed with Poirot. Then I saw him in 'The Importance of Being Earnest,' where he did Lady Bracknell, and he was amazing - he did it like a dinosaur, like a velociraptor.

Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding

I was in a band with a boy who was quite androgynous and a bit bisexual, and we used to play up to that a little bit to be provocative in a theatrical way, but I guess you either are or aren't.

Noel Fielding
Noel Fielding

I just like to build. Don't get me wrong: I think stand-up is great, and when someone like Richard Pryor or Steve Martin does stand-up, there's nothing better in the world. But I don't want to watch a lot of stand-ups for two hours. So I can do 45 minutes of stand-up and then say, 'Can we do something else now?'