It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

I have a stepladder. It's a very nice stepladder but it's sad that I never knew my real ladder.

It's evolve or die, really, you have to evolve, you have to move on otherwise it just becomes stagnant.

It's not supposed to be easy, if it's easy, it's no good, that's the way I look at it.

British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse.

Coming from having absolutely nothing to having a few grand in the bank, it was a big culture leap. I think that's why I went off the rails a bit really, 'cause there was no training for it. They didn't do fame in schools.

Critics called me 'egregious' - I had to look that one up - and 'creepy', but now I don't read them, I weigh them.

For me, everything has always been an accident.

I'm busy and that's the way I like it - when I have too much downtime I get into trouble.

I've been very lucky, this is my 30th year on TV.

I've got wealth and fame but I haven't changed my roots.

My life has been, I suppose, the most incredible series of highs and lows.

Once journalists have been rifling through your dustbins, you do try and keep them at arms' length.

Prison widens your circle of friends. In my stand-up, I can now talk about things that no one else has the right to touch.

The inventory process and stepping back in your life can sometimes be a very dark process. But it also can be extremely funny and surprising.

There was never any career plan. When 'Red Dwarf' started I thought we were doing a curious little sitcom on BBC2, I didn't think I was becoming an actor. I didn't see that 21 years later I'd still be talking about it, let alone filming a new one. For me everything's always been an accident.

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist in the Sixties, it was a bit grim growing up.

What's amazing is that I'm recognized all over the world through 'Red Dwarf.' British fans are exceptional, but the American fans are something else. Some of them fly 500 miles to stand in line for three hours, just to meet me, then when they do they collapse. It makes you feel like a rock star!

You've got to take the positives.

The quest for certainty in forecasting outcomes can be the enemy of progress.

We rise by lifting others.

I always have more fun when I stay in hostels - you just meet so many more people. A hotel makes sense when you're doing work things, but travelling, you don't really get a feel for a place if you're in a hotel. I find it seems to make it all feel like everywhere else.

If anything, a lot of electronic music is music that no one listens to at home, hardly. It's really only to be heard when everyone's out enjoying it.

You can have fantasies about having control over the world, but I know I can barely control my kitchen sink. That is the grace I'm given. Because when one can control things, one is limited to one's own vision.

In hospital people should be able to have time to themselves.

You have a responsibility to move your dreams forward, no matter what.

My high salary for one season was forty-six thousand dollars and a Cadillac.

The role of the pastor is to embody the gospel. And of course to get it embodied, which you can only do with individuals, not in the abstract.

Every soul deserves a shot at a Cadillac but not everyone should be guaranteed a Cadillac.

The problem with the Dorises and the Nicki Minajes and Mileys is that they reach their goal very quickly. There is no long-term vision, and they forget that once you get into that whirlpool, then you have to fight the system that solidifies around you in order to keep being the outsider you claim you represent.

Working with David Bowie was very interesting, but I couldn't surrender to it. I should have let him produce a record for me, but I'm very perverse in some ways. He's brilliant, but the entourage were rather daunting.

I truly appreciate the special qualities that America and American national myths offer me.

I'm one of those guys that never get embarrassed.

Style has always been in my mind the author's Self, the creative expression of that Self.

The Illinois Constitution was written before they realized they'd have a city the size of Chicago in the state. The constitution had severe limits on the ability of any city to raise monies through taxes and bonds. When Chicago grew explosively, they had to come up with ways of getting more money to do more things.

I've gotten jobs that I think I've done the worst audition I ever did, and I got the job. I've done the best audition I've ever done in my entire life, and I haven't gotten the job.

Oh, what a shock. My career must be slipping. This is the first time I've been available to pick up an award.

The more you rejoice in your own forgiveness, the quicker you will be to forgive others.

The Gospel is like water no man invented it yet no man can live without it.

There is no excitement anywhere in the world, short of war, to match the excitement of the American presidential campaign.

Empathy is a special way of coming to know another and ourself a kind of attuning and understanding. When empathy is extended it satisfies our needs and wish for intimacy it rescues us from our feelings of aloneness.

I only made two studio movies, that was a long time ago and obviously I removed myself. I think some of that is geographical. I live in New York and I want to work there, it's as simple as that.

A good culture in a hospital can absorb and manage a few bad nurses, but once the culture becomes bad in itself, bad nursing practice is much harder to hide.