"We do molly-coddle our children - no two ways about it. Compared to when we were kids. When you were a kid you were allowed out all the time on your own.
Some people say 'let your kids out' and they're right probably. But you read the papers, you're terrified there's a man with a beard and glasses lurking around every bush wanting to take them away. And you worry about the traffic, you worry about the violence... So you don't let them out so much.
In my day we would leave the house on a Saturday morning on our Choppers, they wouldn't see us again for 36 or sometimes even 72 hours, we'd return starving, dirty, with a bag of comics gathered from far parts of East London with tales to tell. Come back, drink a pint of milk and straight to bed."
Speaking on his Radio 2 show on Saturday 12th June 2010
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