Have I had therapy? I went to a yoga class once.

There's always a host of voices you're inspired by. I love Don DeLillo, and I love Isaac Bashevis Singer, and I love Beckett, and I love Pinter. He's one of the funniest voices in English literature since Dickens.

Fruit... it's just God showing off. "Look at all the colours I know!"

I thought The Office was good, though I didn't think of it as a sitcom, just as a very good programme.

If you're a comic, you don't have a rehearsal room, you rehearse on stage. My main concern is remembering everything.

Tequila? It's not even a drink. It's a way for having the cops around without using a phone.

You can see desperation in people who are too eager to laugh because they're in such a hurry not to look at what's confronting them in their lives and that's kind of sad because there's a kind of pornographic aspect to it, of making some sort of pain go away, of hovering around a pain, making yourself numb, not feel anything.