It’s only on the brink that people find the will to change. Only at the precipice do we evolve.

I would like to do my own eulogy, and then shoot myself and then get in the coffin.

That's a lovely experience when you make an audience laugh. Then the nerves go away for a bit. And sometimes you do things then that you've never done before that are really funny.

The Americans are so much more positive. They are much more in love with success. In Britain, they're a fairly envious bunch, and they love it if you fail.

My mum died about three years ago at the age of 101, and just towards the end, as she began to run out of energy, she did actually stop trying to tell me what to do most of the time.

The writing is the most important bit, and performing it is just closing the circle because I'm less likely to screw it up than anyone else.

The great thing about Florida is you - each city's about two hours' drive from everywhere else.