When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like a wildfire.
I dislike the concept of 'chic' being the highest compliment for a human being. I'd rather someone be nice than to be chic.
I got everything from someone. Nobody can be original.
You've gotta be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?
Be yourself. It's really important not to try and be someone else.
There's an assumption that my audience is all these bearded twats from Dalston. But actually, quite a lot of older people go. For them, it's like pre-alternative comedy, when there was Dave Allen or Jackie Mason or someone. Also, weirdly, because I don't really swear, they're not scared off.
Someone like John would want to end the Beatle period and start the Yoko period. He wouldn't like either to interfere with the other.
When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.
If I can inspire one spark of awareness or get a spark of introspection or reflection about someone else's life, that's a beautiful thing, in my opinion.
I doubt I'll ever pay someone to do a remix again, because there's some amazing stuff just coming out of bedrooms.
Hospitals are very extreme places - you can be in a maternity room one minute, and by someone's bedside as they're dying the next.
I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.
I have never been someone who applied 'work begets work' to my career, sometimes unfortunately.
People generally let me be me. People are aware that I'm not someone particularly begging for attention. They hold back a bit with me.
If there's any message to my work, it is ultimately that it's OK to be different, that it's good to be different, that we should question ourselves before we pass judgment on someone who looks different, behaves different, talks different, is a different color.
Being depressed is not a beautiful tragedy - it's hell and it's agony. Posting photos of someone that you don't have the consent for is illegal, and that's a huge, huge issue. We need to be teaching consent, and that's not just for photos.
If you haven't forgiven someone, it does not hurt that person. They're sleeping at night. You're holding onto that, and all the damage is being done to you internally.
I wanted to be clever, but being funny came first. That's how you know someone is clever. They don't come out and tell you pi to 13 places - they tell you a joke.
Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
Basically, whenever someone says they're wrong, conservatives too often fall back on claims that those who disagree with them are biased and thus worthy of being ignored, a convenient position that allows them to avoid debating uncomfortable criticisms.
