“I loved my parents. There were never any rows. It was a sort of artist...” — Vic Reeves Quote

“I loved my parents. There were never any rows. It was a sort of artistic, bohemian upbringing.”

“I came up with the Vic Reeves character for a stage project and people presume that's my name, even when I do other acting jobs.”

“I can watch dramas all day long. I like 'Ozark,' things like that.That or 'Coronation Street.' I never miss it.”

“I have a look for everything I do. No matter what I do, I try to dress the part. In the garden, I'd wear vintage Levi's, because they do a thick corduroy trouser and mine have got patches on them. So I'd wear them. And a tweed jacket. The full look.”

“Within comedy, macabre is the root, and a lot of art - Goya, Bosch, Dali - is macabre. Even Van Gogh, if he paints a chair, there's an element of the macabre within it.”

“I've got an incredibly acute sense of smell, like a bloodhound. My wife borrows perfumes off me. I play the bass, too.”

“Name the book that made the biggest impression on you. I bet you read it before you hit puberty. In the time I've got left, I intend to write artistic books - for kids - because they're still open to new ideas.”

“I think any kind of hiatus one takes in an artistic journey is going to make a huge difference. The pause will inform the choices that you make.”

“At the end of the day, makeup comes off whether you're a man or a woman; why discriminate against men, when makeup is such an amazing form of artistic expression, just because society says it's not 'normal?'”

“I feel blessed. To live an artistic life, it's a blessing.”

“Since I was young, the artistic expression that fashion embodies has inspired me. It's a way to communicate oneself.”

“Original thought, original artistic expression is by its very nature questioning, irreverent, iconoclastic.”