I don't just want to upset people and shock people by saying something really outrageous.

It's pretty awful being told you're a racist.

I feel really qualified to write about Australia.

I was terrible student. I was capable, but I never like being told what to do, so I was always in the bottom class at school. In Australia, a lot of students study to the end of year 10, but don't go on to the final year, and I was asked to leave the school because they just thought I wasn't performing well enough. I used to sneak off to play piano, and defy the rules of the school.

When I wrote 'We Can Be Heroes,' I was just so excited about the concept of playing loads of characters, and a television series allows you to do that.

Fans feel they know me, so they want me to be on-the-spot funny, and it's hard to fulfil their expectations.

You feel the pressure of going to university because you need a back-up plan, which is why I enrolled.