Alexei Sayle

However, my problems with my memory are further complicated by the fact that while I don't have any recollection of things I have actually done, I have very vivid recollections of loads of things that I haven't done.

I exist as an annexe of the BBC. I'm down the road a bit from the main building, in a little hut.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

It always seemed to be a constant that my parents were political.

If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git.'

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

I'm still fiercely ambitious.

I would say I was still a Marxist - which is not to be confused with being a Communist. Despite its flaws, Marxism still seems to explain the material world better than anything else.

I am quite girly.

Most of my friends are women - I quite fancied being a woman in a way.

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like 'Brothers in Arms' and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.