Instrumental music is increasingly marginalized and there's just no outlet, there's no venue for it, in terms of media.
In the U.K., the history of regulation, certainly regulation of the media, is one in which, time and again, successive governments lacked the 'bottle' to enforce the powers that were available to them.
I think that everyone is kind of confused about the information they get from the media and rightly so. I'm confused about the information I get from the media.
If you interviewed 1,000 politicians and asked about whether the media's too soft or too hard, about 999 would say too hard.
We need to police ourselves in the media.
The central dilemma in journalism is that you don't know what you don't know.
I told them I wanted to be a comedian, and they laughed; I became a comedian, no one's laughing now
I think there's a part, just a part of comedians, that is still childlike.
All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.
I really don't know what makes a comedian. I think it's a family background and environment. Yet if you put the same ingredients in another person, he may never utter a funny line.