I don't want to hurt people.

We all die at the end, but does that nullify everything? Would most people rather say, "I wish I hadn't been born?" Once you're born you'll have to die, now is that funny or sad?

I think the hard thing for young comedians is that the majority of the young people in the audience out there don't have the wide range of references.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

When I was a child and I was upset about something, my mother was not capable of containing that emotion, of letting me be upset but reassuring me, of just being with me in a calming way. She always got in a flap, so I not only had my own baby panics, fears and terrors to deal with, but I had to cope with hers, too. Eventually I taught myself to remain calm when I was panicked, in order not to upset her. In a way, she had managed to put me in charge of her. At 18 months old, I was doing the parenting.

Wine is wonderful stuff. But so many people are put off by the snobbery of it.

My views are heretical to people who believe in political correctness.