Comedy. It was just huge in my house. Peter Sellers and Alec Guinness, Monty Python and all those James Bond movies were highly regarded.

The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman nor an empire. Discuss.

Comedy and sausages are the two things that if you know how they're made they affect the appetite.

While it is nice to be discovered, it's much better to discover yourself.

I think that there are a lot of great studio people but the fewer voices in my head when I'm getting out a draft, the better. I just get it out and then I'll listen to all manner of good ideas. And that's what happens, too, when I'm touring and doing a character on stage.

Canada is the essence of not being. Not English, not American, it is the mathematic of not being. And a subtle flavour - we're more like celery as a flavour.

Silly is you in a natural state, and serious is something you have to do until you can get silly again.