If your ratings are high and there’s money being made, you’re allowed to be a perfectionist in television.

Find your voice, shout it from the rooftops, and keep doing it until the people that are looking for you find you.

Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we'd naturally do.

Once upon a time, something happened, and it was better than something not happening. The end.

All [tv] shows are like cigarettes. You watch two, you have a higher chance of watching three. They're all addictive.

Don't be so hard on yourself, don't put pressure on yourself, life is just a chain of experiments and results, and you'll be perfect when you're dead.

I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.

I always try to use my medium, and if I get into a normal sitcom-writing contest with normal sitcom writers, I'm going to lose.

I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.

Pretty sad. Pretty lonely. But that's how I prefer it? I quess? I guess. It's a good guess. It's the best quess ever.

The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.

That is human nature, that people come after you, willingly enough, provided only that you no longer love or want them.

You can be creative in anything - in math, science, engineering, philosophy - as much as you can in music or in painting or in dance.

When things begin accelerating wildly out of control, sometimes patience is the only answer. Press pause.

My mom used to tell me: 'It's not what you weigh it's what you look like.'

The UK has a poor investment record. According to IMF data, we have come seventh out of the top seven industrialised countries since 1999.

Music is entertainment, and all the various methods of consumption are out there. Go for what you like, simple as that!

There are words to paint the misery of love, but none to paint its happiness.

The issue isn't the accuracy of the bombs you have, it's how you use the bombs you have - and more importantly, whether you ought to use bombs at all.

Irony is a qualification of subjectivity.

When you make Service your sole purpose in life, it eliminates fear, focuses your mind and gives you meaning.