It's impossible to be unhappy while wearing a poncho!

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.

There was a big age difference between me and my brothers - about 10 years - so I was an only child for a long time. I used to hang out a lot on my own. I played a lot of weird games with a lot of imaginary people. I guess it's kind of roleplaying.

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.

When I was a little kid I always wanted to be ginger. My best friend was ginger and he was pretty cool.

Trousers can never be too tight. You have to go through a couple of days of pain, then everything stretches out.

When you start, it's not to do with the material so much. It's more to do with how you can control a crowd and make friends with an audience and sell your brand of humor.