I think my parents had a hard time dealing with me.

I think after doing a few shows now, people are ready to put me down.

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

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

People were making fun of redheads before I came along.

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

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.