Limmy

“I think I called myself an entertainer on my son's birth certificate. That sounds a bit Sammy Davis Jr. or Brian Conley, the sort of guy you just drop into a room and let them 'entertain.'”

“I tell people on Facebook what my Playstation user name is. It's quite a social thing. I put the headset on and I'm just yappin' away. It's kind of like a sad way of socialising. It's like meeting up with people but when you get bored with them you can just switch them off and walk away.”

“I'm alright with being disliked rather than trying to be perfect, because you get to relax then.”

“Going to the doctors - for me that was quite brave, taking that first step. That was a bit scary, saying that I wanted to go on anti-depressants.”

“I don't need a lot: I've got a telly, a computer - what else can you get me?”

“Some people don't like showing any deviation from normality, but I like talking about things like that, so talking about my mental health wasn't a big deal.”

“I don't feel comfortable calling myself a writer or a director or an actor.”

“I'm genuine! I've not got some dark, shadowy corporation behind me pulling the strings.”

“People are so quick to get offended.”

“I've never been an embarrassed, 'never talk about their feelings' sort of person.”

“I felt I was a bit switched off for years, not really caring about things. I don't know if that's depression or whatever, but I was thinking 'I might. Aye I will. No, I willnae' as far as getting a second series goes.”

“Doctors are just people and they can make mistakes.”

“Going to a pub when you're not drinking is pretty boring.”

“I don't want Scotland to be more important than England. There's just a cancer of low self-esteem in Scotland and a general feeling that if we were to break away it would be game over and we would be bankrupt. If that is the case then that's exactly what we should do. Why are we, a country that would be bankrupt, leaching off another one?”

“I've always been a very open person, all my life, even at school.”

“It's in me to get steaming and to think too much, worry too much about the future, the past.”

“A guy playing pool in a pub once said to me that they should put me on the telly. It went in one ear and out the other. But then I started thinking about it. I wondered how it all worked, did you have to be best mates with someone at the BBC who you went to uni with in Oxford?”

“I've just got a really sick sense of humour that's separate from reality.”

“The very first time I did stand-up, that was terrifying.”

“Sometimes there were certain things in 'Limmy's Show' where I'd be having to come up with six episodes and as a result there was stuff in there that wasn't my favourite and I'd think, 'ach I'll shove that in this episode.'”