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.

People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you’re on drugs or mad, rather than free.

No means yes in grasshopper language.

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

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

All my friends got dogs and cats for Christmas, and I got a starfish called Roy. I used to take him down to the park on a lead.

When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.

Never try and go on a solo mission on your own.

I've had a really weird day, some joker threw bamboo in the penguin enclosure. They all vaulted out. It was a nightmare, it took me all morning to get them back in.

I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a joke, just tiny moments.

I've got it all in here ultra violets, flying saucers, strawberry bootlace come on get involved.

Poetry is a sort of truancy, a dream within the dream of life, a wild flower planted among our wheat.

You are about to awake when you dream that you are dreaming.

Most people are genuinely good, sweetheart, and even the evil ones have some good in them. -Shannon Hale

I try to make all of my roles likeable in some way.

Government is violence masquerading as answers to strangers' problems using other peoples' money.

American consumers have no problem with carcinogens, but they will not purchase any product, including floor wax, that has fat in it.

I have no acting technique I act instinctively. That's why I can't play any role that isn't based on something in my life.

I can't see heaven but I credit hell I live in New York so I know it well. When they shut out heaven with the Fuller Dome God gave it up and He went home.

I feel that God wants me to coach; otherwise, he wouldn't have put the desire in me.

If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always seem to get people to sing with me.