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I think I'm just someone that just tries to get by. I'm kind of - if it was during the Second World War, I'd be a black marketeer, I think.
I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.
I think that clearly it has an influence, to be coming of age during the punk rock era, to come from a difficult and sporadically violent background, to have been in and out of such chaos, I think it actually helps. But I don't know for sure.
I try and live my life in bite-size chunks.
I used to believe, like many people who come from poor backgrounds, that it gave me an edge, but I think that's just something we have to tell ourselves to get by sometimes. I don't believe that anymore. Children of privilege can be just as talented and clever as anybody else.
I used to psych myself up before the show and now I do the complete opposite: I psych myself down. It's 12:30 at night, you don't want some guy yelling at you. You want some guy just talking to you.
I wanted to be a rock star.
I'm a terrible interviewer. I'm not a journalist - although I have a Peabody Award - and I'm not really a late-night host. What I am is honest.
I'm careful with money.
I'm crazy. I know I'm crazy 'cause Desmond Tutu told me, and he's very clever. He said, 'You must free yourself, be more of who you are. Be more crazy.' And I'm going to.
I'm not aware of having a creepy laugh, but apparently I do.
I'm reading a book, because I'm brainy. No, it is a book - if you don't know, it is like a blog except bigger.
I've been running my whole life. Running into bars, running around the world. But when you have a child, you can't run. That was a revelation.
I've got young kids, so it suits me to do a job which keeps me in town right now.
I've started looking at my own father a bit funny. He assures me, though, that I really am the son of a Scottish postman.
If Scotland and America go to war, I'm afraid I've already sworn in.
If we are now holding late-night talk-show hosts to the same moral accountability as we hold politicians or clergymen, I'm out. I'm gone.
Is it really that important? It's just television, for God's sake. It's not medicine or something.
It's like, it's kind of like if you ever had a car and it was a bit of a clunker but you love it, that's my show. It's a bit of a clunker but I know where everything is and I like it.
It's not that we fly by the seat of our pants. We're not afraid of failure.
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