There are times over different projects when I've asked the writers why people are swearing for no good reason. I tell them that it would be funnier if there weren't these swear words.

From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.

But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.

I never went to drama school, so that was more like I was getting away with it.

It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.

I was a carpenter in Northern Vermont and got this tax refund check that just about covered a one-way airfare to London. So this I saw as a sign from God. So I went over to see Ray [Hussett] for a couple of weeks and ended up staying 10 years. I got work as a stage carpenter at the Oval House in Kennington, South London.

On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.