I had always drawn, every day as long as I had held a pencil, and just assumed everyone else had too…Art had saved me and helped me fit in…Art was always my saving grace…Comedy didn’t come until much later for me. I’ve always tried to combine the two things, art and comedy, and couldn’t make a choice between the two. It was always my ambition to make comedy with an art-school slant, and art that could be funny instead of po-faced.

I could get an audience into my world and if you can do that, they'll go with you not all the way, but a lot of the way.

When you're a kid and someone's an artist, you think of Leonardo da Vinci. You don't think that's a job; you just think of a man with a beard painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel.

When I was a really young child, I felt like I could see fairies. I was convinced there were fairies in my grandmother's garden.

You know the black bits in bananas? Are they tarantulas' eggs?

I'd like to punch out a really old lady. There'd be no repercussions.

You must have stuck a finger up your arse at least once.