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 get bored with the constant probing for the cliched tears of the clown, the dark side of the comic.

Australia has a thing where apparently it's fine for me to dress up as an Asian woman. No one has questioned that.

You can't get any better than TV on HBO, ABC and BBC3.

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

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

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