Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

Every time I start a new piece of work, I spend a long while under the duvet thinking I can't do it.

There's only one thing more boring than listening to other people's dreams, and that's listening to their problems.

I don't know why women are so mad about flowers. Personally, they leave me cold. I prefer trees.

I think it's essential for comic writers to have a hate figure, a despot, a regime to react against, and I think Thatcher was perfect for me, I loathed everything she stood for.

I have decided to be a poet. My father said there isn't a suitable career structure for poets and no pensions and other boring things, but I am quite decided.

My skin is dead good. I think it must be a combination of being in love and Lucozade.