“I remember, when I was an up-and-coming comic, how annoyed I would be when the famous guys would show up and just take everyone's spots.”

“I just like the company of beautiful women. I have a weakness in that department. And I suppose because I am fairly well off and a famous musician, I'm up for grabs. And that makes me an eligible bachelor in the press.”

“That the work involved, the willingness to take chances, the commitment, the opportunity to get on stage and make people happy, was more important than becoming famous, or even what I was dancing.”

“I was a shy kid, but somehow I knew I would make it as a performer. I'd always be telling my mum that I was going to be a famous singer. In my school yearbooks I would write, 'Remember me when I'm famous.' I knew I had a gift.”

“Once you start telling people you're famous, they believe you.”

“I didn't want kids to think that to be happy, they had to be famous or rich or live in the big city.”

“When I was younger, I used to say, One day I'll be famous.”

“Quite often I can be in a bookshop, standing beneath a great big picture of myself and paying for a book with a credit card clearly marked John Grisham, yet no one recognises me. I often say I'm a famous author in a country where no one reads.”

“I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law.”