Paper acts as an eraser on the mind, as soon as you look at what you've written.

I don't have lungs anymore! Just two spare bags that flew in under a bridge one day.

The trend now is to get away from stage bound sitcoms.

You achieve the surreal jokes through the realism by making it elastic.

America is this incredible mosaic of immigrants, so people really want to be anchored in some kind of culture as well as the one they are living in.

When things are going well, I can't write fast enough to keep up with my mind. Writing walks, speech runs and talk flies. Other times, though, it's like fishing.

I have used that song ["50ft Queenie"] and I'm a big PJ Harvey fan. I think she's fantastic.