Comedy is a very personal thing, as you would know if you've ever told the same joke to two people and had one of them laugh their head off and the other one look at you as though you were a completely cretin.

The world is infinitely more complex than it appeared to me 15 years ago.

I've become a much more serious young insect.

A poll earlier this year showed that 42 per cent of Americans believe we're in the End Times.

We live in a society that worships youth. On television, in magazines, in advertisements and on billboards, what sells and what is sold to us is youth.

I have deep respect for people's individual faith, but when faith gets connected to the machinery of state, or the machinery of hate, I find it very confronting.

I didn't like the nervous tension of being a public person.