Some comics have long routines to get them in the mood - I just prefer to sit down, write out the same jokes in a different order and then have a little prayer that I won't be met by silence.

I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.

When I sit down to write, I just let the goose out of the bottle.

I was never one to sit down and write a plan for my future.

My method is, I just sit down and write a book.

The mood of the 80s - Get what you can, can what you get, and sit on the can.