Comedian

Rodents can come across as being quite vacant in the personality stakes.

I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of things.

However light-hearted you try to be about it, the loss of youth, and everything that goes with it, is quite a trauma.

I was lightweight - that was the whole point of me.

I am full of gratitude for my life - and for this house.

The whole business of getting famous was good fun, but it was a long time ago.

There is a single entendre, but I don't know about a triple one.

I thought they were staring at me because I was gay. But it was because I was on the telly.

If I've been here a long time, I think: I must go to London and speak to someone or see a bus.

I live in a kind of gay bubble. I live in a gay house, I drive a gay car. I eat gay food.

The public has always had affection for gay entertainers. The time was right for an out gay entertainer.

I'm not sure how aware of the rest of the world I am. I live a rather sheltered existence.

A lot of gay men have a lot of sex. That's what we do. But I've stopped all that-the revolving door into my bedroom. Promiscuity. That was of its day, really.

I didn't think of myself as a tart, but I wouldn't argue with anyone who did.

I thought a dignified thing to do would be to live in the country by the time I'm 50 and write books.

I think Australians like a bit of vulgarity.

It was all about wanting to get revenge. Pathetic, really, but it still is the motivation.

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.

I'm currently in an interesting correspondence with a nun about forgiveness.

I get just as much of a thrill out of constructing a good sentence that gets a laugh at the end as I do from a joke.