I always enjoy conversation more if there is some substance to it - which is a just incredibly hilarious thing for me to say because for many, many years I was the guy whose only contribution to any conversation was, 'There was a funny 'Simpson's' joke about that.'

The thing with the comics is that you have license to go down every alley your brain can think of.

You do not want a war. You have known violence, you have suffered loss, but you have seen nothing of war. War is not just the business of death; it is the anti-thesis of life. Hope, tortured and flayed, reason, dismembered, grinning at its limbs in its lap. Decency, raped to death... You will be a murderer and more.

I've never watched reality shows, except for the Great British Bake Off, which is magnificent.

If nothing we do matters... , then all that matters is what we do

They can take everything away from me, but they can never take my pride, unless I somehow get some.

In production, in the first couple of weeks of production, that it was more like making an internet musical.