Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

If I did things for the money, I'd have done adverts in the 1980s, when I was hot enough to be offered them, and 'Police Academy 6,' which I was asked to write.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.

You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund