What is universal can be surprising. Over time you find the kind of stuff which has people thinking 'That is just something that occurred to me there's something wrong with me', is in fact stuff that is universal.

I'm very drawn to Eastern Europe, so I like a Hungarian writer who wrote in French called Emil Cioran; he was always good for giving me such a stir.

Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't.

You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...

I've got better things to do than read rubbish about myself.

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

Don't do it! Stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up, it's potential, leave it. Anyway, it's like your bank balance - you always have a lot less than you think.