I do play drums when I'm on tour.

I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh.

I like consistency. If you've had a childhood like mine, you want some things you can rely on to stay the same.

I owe everything to the army.

I play drums, clarinet, saxophone, trumpet, french horn, piano.

I used to first go on to entertain an audience. But now I go, and this is really true - I go on to have fun with a crowd of my chums.

I was born in London, and went to school in Scotland - I used to be dead tired when I got home at night.

I was born in very sorry circumstances.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.

I'm still constantly thinking of ideas. I don't feel 90. I think I'm about 12.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

Well if I was going to describe my audience, it's going to take longer than you'd ever expect, hundreds of years in fact, because there's many of them, all over the world.

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

Of course I've done musicals here in London.

In fact, one was so booked out we went from March and were to go till November, but the pantomime was booked so they transferred the show to the Prince of Wales Theatre because it was so packed out, and it ran on from there.