I have two brothers and we basically spent our lives playing in the woods, falling in ponds, getting chased by wasps and riding donkeys that we shouldn't have been riding.

By crying on my bed, drinking quite a lot and feeling tempted by drugs. Well, just not reading it to be perfectly honest with you. I know it's a bit of a copout.

I don't like doing stand-up, because I don't like standing up.

I think the key attributes for a good speaker are someone that's articulate and someone that puts a fair amount of humour into what they do.

I used to get nervous about three weeks before a gig... now I've managed to condense it down to a manageable ten minutes.

I think it's difficult, if you're a quite private person like I am, to write about your life very intimately.

I think my comedy, the put-downs I do to hecklers, are the accumulated bitterness of years of people feeling that it's perfectly acceptable to make a comment on your appearance when they don't even know you.