Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.

People in the future look back on primitive machinery or technology or painting, and in some ways, it always seems amazingly intricate and finely wrought.

Comedy is what happens when you cross the dateline from the unbearable. Things become so unbearable they become a joke.

Like trillions of others, if it wasn't for Bob Dylan, it would have been a different musical landscape. Pop music wouldn't have been my thing at all. I did also grow up listening to The Beatles, but I never thought of being a Beatle.

I think The Beatles are the lasting influence on me, even more so than Dylan.

Just as with a guitar, you can improvise a guitar solo, and they'd probably be similar each time, but they won't be exactly the same. With the word, it's probably a bit freer than that. I probably repeat myself more musically than I do verbally.

Superman, Superman, crunchy little Superman. Found you in a Cornflakes box.