I've started running three or four times a week, which prompts millions of sketch ideas.

I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say.

With acting, I always felt like I didn't have control of it. It was all about other people giving me a job.

My dad is a much more flamboyant character than I am. I think that's why I couldn't see myself going into straight acting. I always just felt daft.

I feel Scottish when with English people, and when I'm with Scottish people, I realise I'm English.

I had a terrible dream when I was pregnant; I dreamt the baby had a ventriloquial mouth, but there was no hand hole; I had to flick the mouth down to get words out.

If I have a gig in the evening, I get 'the doom' at about 5 P.M., when I think I'm getting flu.

I like my squishy, red, high-heeled Vivienne Westwood jelly shoes. They make you seem like you're much more of a go-er.

The way I talk to the puppets is real, and it's in the moment, and it's seeing what will happen. It's not something that is scripted.

Having a puppet is a way of having opposing opinions - I say a thing; he says the other.

I make napkins talk in restaurants, socks talk on car journeys. There is an awful lot of puppetry going on in the house.

Invite TranquilityThe sea, --Something to look atWhen we are angry.

Once started, love couldn't easily be stopped.

So, my happiness doesn't come from money or fame. My happiness comes from seeing life without struggle.

Videos destroyed the vitality of rock and roll. Before that, music said, "Listen to me." Now it says, "Look at me."

Artists aren't looking for you to write them something; they're looking for you to give them something new.

The memory of oppressed people is one thing that cannot be taken away, and for such people, with such memories, revolt is always an inch below the surface.

My wife will tell you that if you feel my hands before I walk on for a performance, you could chill a bottle of wine.

Improvisation is the art of being completely O.K. with not knowing what the f— you’re doing

A bad man becomes worse when he apes a saint.

Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min?