It takes me ages to write stuff.

I'm definitely attracted to the idea of people that have these big aspirations that the audience know might never happen, but they're lost in them.

I've done signings where elderly people will line up to get photos with me and ask me to sign things. They don't even pretend it's for their grandkids. They're like, "No, it's for me."

If you over-think, it affects things too much; I work instinctively, like painting in a way. Think too much, and you ruin everything.

Like, Australians definitely don't walk around dressed up in blackface going "Ha-ha."

I guess my performance at school was doing school musicals, so I was a knight as well at the back of the stage in Camelot. It was all those kind of things. It wasn't the stuff that I wanted to do. The real funny character stuff came out when I was in control of it myself and writing it myself.

I'm interested in youth culture - when your parents are running your life, but you think you're the big man - but I'm not trying to make a statement.