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I don't enjoy writing newspaper articles any more than people like reading them. I'm a standup comic, not a journalist, although sometimes onstage I will say: 'What else is in the news?' Writing is work, which I'm not comfortable with.

I don't really read a lot of newspapers. I don't pay attention to what is being said or written about me. I've had lots of experiences in the past when I got too much into it. That sort of diverts your focus.

Nowadays I'm not even sure if newspapers take into account whether a person is a good writer.

I admit that I am hopelessly hooked on the printed newspaper. I love turning the pages and the serendipity of stumbling across a piece of irresistible information or a photograph that I wasn't necessarily intending to read.

Every day I tell myself that reading newspapers is a waste of time, but then... I cannot do without them. They are like a drug.

I don't read all the newspapers.

I don't think that my kind of journalism has ever been universally popular. It's lonely out here.

I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.