My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
Barry HumphriesThe whole point of art, aside from the aesthetic pleasure it yields, is that it provides a bridge to the past; that seductive land where we all find certainty and consolation. Nothing quite spans this gulf with such immediacy as the art of popular song.
Barry HumphriesIf you can't laugh at yourself, you may be missing the colossal joke of the century.
Barry Humphries