Johnny Vegas

“I wanted to be a priest, but when I was 11 I discovered comedy and girls.”

“The great thing about stand-up is that you can be as daft as you want.”

“Pottery is my therapy. It's my way of switching off.”

“I do genuinely believe that the world is a better place with a bit of silliness in it.”

“My dad was a publican and my mum was a pub mum, and we lived over a pub. I was a silent-watcher, a sit-in-the-corner-and-perve-at-humanity kind of kid.”

“I'm quite a private person, and I'm not a natural showman.”

“I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that.”

“I'm not a great planner. I'm a 'fly by the seat of my pants' kind of person.”

“I think there's a responsibility to be honest in your comedy.”

“I don't think I'm a natural comedian. I'm a storyteller.”

“I've always been a worrier. It's part of my DNA.”