You know, people sometimes say to me, 'Do you prefer to do this or that, act or do stand-up or write' but the thing that I enjoy most is the difference between all of them, because you're always learning. I don't go around thinking of myself as a great anything. I'm actually lucky to have the chance to fail at all of them.

Organic? I grew up on Angel Delight. We didn't have anything in the house if it wasn't neon!

Don't clap I'm not a jazz band for Christ's sake.

I've always wanted to visit [Washington]. The Smithsonian has some fantastic archival material on blues music, which I'm really into. There's a ton of stuff I want to do there. but it just never happened.

Go and lie down in the dark... for hours... and don't move. I'm locking the door now

Children are the most honest critics. They will say "You're funny", but also "You're pathetic - go away."

You see the button with the guy with the tray, and you push it, and he arrives with a sandwich! And you think: "Yes! Yes! I control sandwich monkey! I live in magic land, magic land, magic land"