Rik Mayall

Words on the page don't have the same impact as somebody saying the words to you.

When you're an experienced celeb - which I am - you sometimes just need a bit of space, when you're not 'on'. I'm always on!

With an audience it's now, there are no editors around. It's just me and the audience and it's what I like best.

I am happy to the spokeswoman for this French youth that tomorrow will be spearhead new hope in the shape of the National Front.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.