I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody who's made me laugh, who's funny, but who's also relentlessly positive.

Children are the most honest critics. They will say 'You're funny', but also 'You're pathetic - go away.'

I don't watch a whole lot of stand up. Mainly I prefer to read writers; they make me laugh the most. Something gets you when you're alone and someone's voice is coming through their work. There's a different quality to it that stays with you a bit more.

I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that, or it's like this, and that's really up to them, that's fine, but I don't sit around all day analysing it. I just try and enjoy a show and interest myself because if I don't do that then I won't interest anybody else.

I think a poet is anybody who wouldn't call himself a poet.

Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.