235 Quotes by Bill Bailey

I discovered I'm 60 per cent Viking. Well, more Danish, I suppose. I'm also two-and-a-half per cent Neanderthal.

I have anti-establishment hair.

My earliest memory is feeling soil between my fingers when I was around three years old.

My grandfather had strong opinions. He was an argumentative character and quite staunchly socialist.

I grew up in a little town between Bath and Bristol with my parents and grandparents in the same house. It was rural and idyllic.

My mother was a classic matriarchal figure. She'd sing round the house and always had music on.

I was an only child but I never longed for a sibling. It just didn't occur to me.

Family helps you make clearer choices about things. Your priorities become clearer. Your obligations become clearer, and that is something I welcome.

People perceive me as this kind of hippy intellectual, reflecting and communing with nature or in a pyramid somewhere chanting. Really, no. I love speed, fast things, quad and road bikes, and bombing down a mountain.