Art historical reference is like learning to drive a car - you always know how to drive even though you're not analysing how.

Design impacts me in everything I do. Because, as I say, everything I own is designed. So the building I live in, the objects I choose to boil water in for example, even drinking vessels.

I was very physical as a child - we lived on a smallholding, and I was always outside making mud pies or building structures up trees.

Artists and scientists both think outside the box. They've got to come with genius experiments or ideas to expose the most interesting phenomena.

Creeping Death' - that was a special song for me as a kid, because that was the one that every single Jewish kid thought, 'Oh, Metallica wrote a song for us. He wrote it about the exodus of the Jews from Egypt under slavery.'

I've accentuated the look over the years. As a comic, you try something and if it works you go with it and grind it to death.

If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.

I always mention stacking the dishwasher - any opportunity. But it's the consequences - it's the food poisoning and the potential death that will come with not loading the dishwasher properly.