I've always been drawn to discomfort and that limbo of unease you get between comedy and tragedy.

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

I don't like big feet. It reminds me of gammon.

If things don't come easy to you, you have to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

The truth is somewhere in the middle of funny and serious.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

You can't be like pop stars, but you can be part of their story. You can be their fan.

I don't practice what I preach, I preach what I practice.

As my contribution as an artist and a storyteller, I have to have some hope. I have to have some beacon of good at the end of it.

Instead of finding alternative energy sources, we try to subjugate entire regions of the world. People do not understand that by doing this, the United States are going to absolute ruin.

There was a cultural war going on, the '60s was going on. All the film critics were square.

I still want to make a pop record. I want to make a more sonically current pop record. I maybe want to make people move a little bit more.

Vertical lift-up politics rather than horizontal left-right.

Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence.

Ponder the fact that God has made you a gardener, to root out vice and plant virtue.

When you're public, you're at the mercy of the markets. You can be doing extremely well, but if the markets are in the tank or your industry is in the tank, you don't get rewarded for it.