Playing girls is cool, but its a lot more fun playing boys.

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

I find teenage girls endlessly funny.

I never like to think of any character as being over. I'm always thinking of different ways of bringing them back.

I feel really qualified to write about Australia.

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.

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.