I am so proud of the growth of Dylan's Candy Bar into two more flagship stores: Union Square in New York City and Chicago on Michigan Avenue, and two airport stores: JFK and Detroit.

I always feel better when my hair looks good.

I think people always want candy, whether you're a kid or an adult.

I was not a girly girl. I was a tomboy.

I'm a stuffed rabbit collector.

I did have a 1977 Barbie, but I was more into stuffed animals than dolls.

I feel like I filled a niche for myself as a candy freak, trying to find candies all around the world that I couldn't find.

There are a few entrepreneurs whom I look up to. My dad, Ralph Lauren, has definitely evolved into a lifestyle brand of clothing and home furnishings.

Oprah Winfrey is such an inspiring person.

People get emails from me at 3 in the morning.

If you're running a race, and you're looking at the lane to your right or your left, you're gonna trip instead of... focusing forward.

I definitely eat candy in bed. I eat candy wherever I am.

I like having a lot of sunlight because it helps me wake up. And I don't get depressed in winter.

Being in meetings - that feels like work. But finding candy, being in the store - that's fun, and it drives me.

Some people like telling people what to do. I don't like telling people what to do.

It's inspiring to watch people love my dad and want to work with him. I feel that same investment in making sure people are happy.

If your heart's not into what you're selling, you're not going to make it.

I love 'Gossip Girl' for so many reasons. The show is like candy: a delicious treat for fans.

I love accessorizing with jewelry.

I'm not so much a shoe or bag person as jewelry, and I think it's because jewelry is like candy.

I've always been inspired by retail entertainment, whether Ralph Lauren or the Disney Store or Niketown.

I did have a 1977 Barbie, but I was more into stuffed animals than dolls.

I feel like I filled a niche for myself as a candy freak, trying to find candies all around the world that I couldn't find.

There are a few entrepreneurs whom I look up to. My dad, Ralph Lauren, has definitely evolved into a lifestyle brand of clothing and home furnishings.

Oprah Winfrey is such an inspiring person.

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

I quite fancy the 1940s. I like the trams and the trousers.

I'm not drunk onstage, although I've done that a couple of times when I was younger. It's partly just the way I talk - I talk like somebody in a rocking chair. I'm your 150-year-old grandmother.

I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.

I have a very low level of recognition, which is fine by me.

I enjoy performing, always, but when you're taping a gig, you've got to blank out this mass apparatus of self-consciousness that's surrounding you, this invitation to drown in self-consciousness. Otherwise you just won't be able to do anything.

Some people have told me that I'm grumpy; it's not something that I'm aware of. It's not like I walk around poking children in the eye... not very small ones, anyway.

You can't please everyone, nor should you seek to, because then you won't please anyone, least of all yourself.

Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.'

Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.

Have I had therapy? I went to a yoga class once.

America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in.

I was very into New Order, Joy Division, all of that when I was younger. I had a lot of bootlegs that I saved up my pocket money to buy. I had all the obscure early EPs.

I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody who's made me laugh, who's funny, but who's also relentlessly positive.

You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.

I did throw a lot of eggs into one basket, as you do in your teenage years - 'I am buying these records, I am wearing this'. I did quite a bit of that. You have to do it, wear your stupid shoes, wear your stupid hair.

Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.

What I prefer is an audience who listen. And are intelligent. Which I try and assume every audience is. And that if something goes wrong, it's generally my fault and not theirs.

I suppose the best comedy shows do have the rock n' roll feeling - if it's a great night, and the roof is raised... yeah, it's a similar feeling, sure.

One thing that's coming up a lot is: are you as grumpy as you appear from this Black Books thing.

The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.

We are both drawn to surreal situations so the writing was a joy.

I grew up in a house where there was lots of teasing and language play and laughter; it was very important. When I was a teenager, you wouldn't go to a bar and find lots of televisions everywhere. People were talking. Talk was the mental fire you would gather around in the evening. It occupied a big part of your existence.

Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't.

I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for giving me such a stir.