Limmy

“I don't really get angry any more.”

“I think most people like a bit of freedom and hearing things that they might not agree with, rather than just having everybody shutting their mouths.”

“The word 'cult' is almost a nice way of saying a lot of people hate you, or have never heard of you. It means someone can come up to me in the street who's really into my stuff, who's seen everything I've done, but the guy standing beside them has no idea who I am. Even in Glasgow. I think that's cult.”

“Some people don't seem to be able to distinguish between humour and what you really feel. They forget that there's a difference between what's real and what's a fantasy or joke.”

“I think no matter where you're from, you're going to be laughing about stuff going on around you.”

“There used to be such a thing as a sick joke, or laughing at misfortune, because comedy and laughter are a way of coping. And there is a kind of cruelty to it, but you can separate finding something horrible funny, and what you really think of it.”

“People say what they think online because it's not to your face. That's a good thing. You don't really want people just being nice to you with their opinions.”

“I always wanted to get on the telly. Then see when I did, and there was talk about doing more online, Comedy Labs or iPlayer, I was: 'Naw, naw, naw, I want to be On The Telly that sits in the living room and folk watch it together.”

“There have been occasions when some people have taken me very seriously.”

“I mean, maybe I'm alternative in that my stuff's not mainstream, doesn't want to be mainstream, could never be mainstream.”

“I really like violence in writing and films.”

“People say 'Limmy's Show' is kind of hit or miss, but I'd rather that than having something generally likable.”

“I write in quite a simple way because that's just the way I write. The vocab I use is quite wee. That's just the way I talk.”

“My son likes Doctor Seuss books, but they're right tongue twisters. You get to certain bits and you stumble your words and it makes you feel like an idiot.”

“I think I was maybe a ned. I don't know. I had a trakkie, a cap and got into trouble when I was younger and I don't remember other neds round about me, so I suppose I must have been one. But a thinking ned, an intelligent ned.”

“With the Internet I just love how anything goes, especially in the light of this whole Sachsgate.”

“My maw died when I was 20. You tune into the radio or the telly and life goes on. Things keep on happening. The world doesnae stop.”

“I sometimes wonder if I'm a psychopath.”

“It's almost like schizophrenia the way I get ideas about things that are not really happening and just end up focusing on them.”

“Why do I want to annoy people? Because annoying people is funny.”