I played so many clubs growing up, and back in that period, in the '60s, we'd play, like, four, five sets a night.

I grew up in the era where everybody wanted to sing like Mitch Ryder and James Brown. And I did, too. But I learned real quick that it hurts after a while.

Everything's challenging for me, singing-wise. I'm like an old truck with one gear left on it.

My wife is, by and large, the best thing that ever happened to me.

Laziness can be virtuous in the right setting, I guess.

Warner Bros. was a great label to be affiliated with. It's the best label out there, and the fact that I was with them for 20 years was just an honor.

I know that things change and markets change. Those are the realities of the business.

Most of my life is taken up with family. It takes me awhile to get a record together that I feel is worthy of putting out.

It's funny how, as we get older, what become our fondest memories are not necessarily the happiest times of our lives but the times of our lives that shaped us the most.

I'm a very slow songwriter; it takes me sometimes years to write one song, if I ever finish.

I've always had a dream that I might write a Christmas song that might resonate with people during the holidays.

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I bought my wife a beautiful diamond ring and I even had it engraved - with the price.

One of the positives of getting older is that you forget your age. Then you find out that you're younger than you thought you were.

If you can help it, don't be rude to people. When you're rude about someone and the audience laugh you can't deny that it's a bullying laugh.

Our family home, a large house in Hampstead, was sold to Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne. I remember being told that 'someone who eats bats' was buying it.

Hard audiences tend to be when it's all men. It's when businesses have dos where they're at conferences all day then book a comedian for the evening. They're men of a certain age - basically middle-aged, balding, 50 to 60 years old and I just know I can't make these people laugh hysterically.

Now I almost overly embrace how weird I am, how I look and how oddly camp I am. It's almost too honest for me because I harboured ambitions to be quite a cool, good-looking guy.

A responsive crowd is great - they help you see new things in your comedy.

There's nothing better than having a bright, blinding light in your face and being guided by big, rolling laughter. There's nothing more encouraging than hearing that huge sound. I've waited my whole life to hear that. You come away with the biggest high of your life.

I had some terrible times - comparatively speaking. I saddled myself with a load of debt, I wasn't liked by a lot of my fellow comics and I used to blame other people for me not getting a break. But now I realise I just wasn't very good. And as soon as I became good, things took off pretty quickly.

Ruthlessness is not something that comes easily.

Men need to be with women otherwise I don't think they really know how to behave. They'll just stare at me and it's awkward, so I scramble around in my mind to say the rudest things I can think of just to get something out of them.

I've got some Jewish ancestry and I don't like waste.

I would never be rude about somebody else in my profession because we all do this same thing. We're just trying to make people laugh.

Sometimes it's difficult to laugh at certain things but comedy can help.

The last thing you want is for people not to care about what you have to say.

I'm thrilled at the continued success of the 'Big Show.'

Australia is fun, but completely exhausting and confusing because I never get on with the different time zone.

Making the 'Big Show' has been the most fun I've had on telly.

Coming up with your own opinion is hard. When I go to see a movie I don't really know if I enjoyed it, so I ask my wife and listen to people talking on the way out. If they all say it was magnificent I'll agree!

I've always felt so unconnected to other comedians.

I just find little things in life funny, it's why I giggle during my shows.

Women like me. Women love me. But not so my wife need worry. Not in a 'he's so hot' type of way. More in a 'come round for a cup of tea' way.

Fame is sexy. And women are meant to find men who are funny sexy. But not me. Absolutely not me. Clearly I just missed the sexy bit.

I'm sure there are comedians who make jokes about me, but say something funny, not mean.

I've always found the world funny and enjoy laughing at it, and that's what all comedians do.

If I'm honest, I think everything is funny. You've just got to find the right way in. When I'm at my happiest and when I'm really on it, when I feel like I'm really on good form at the moment, everything can be funny.

I don't like upsetting people.

I found the idea of trying to create a show that everyone can enjoy really appealing.

I never felt like I belong to anything - to any groups of friends. I never really had that.

I was trying to do one-liners and it took me years to realise I just had to be myself. My fear was if I was myself and no one found it funny, I'd have nowhere left to go.

I've been performing stand-up comedy for ten years, it's what I love and will always do.

I'm not going to crack America.

I don't understand people who write blogs and have children. You can't stop in the middle of bathtime and say: 'I'm just going to write a load of words - for free.' I won't do it - unless someone wants to commission me.

People have their special room for Christmas. One year my mum left her present on the arm of the sofa and it was still there the following Christmas!

It would be nice if I had a faster metabolism, because I love food.

I don't eat huge amounts, I'm just very lazy. But then this story appeared about me being on a diet and several weeks later I was snapped on holiday with my ''new physique'' on display, which was basically my old physique under a baggy T-shirt. I hadn't been on any diet. But I felt I had to live up to it.

I like jokes where people don't stop laughing.

I had a great moment with Michael Buble where I asked him if he could teach me to sing like him and he said why we don't sing together, so we did! It was great because my wife and children came to watch his performance.