If you really push yourself you can perhaps achieve something you didn't think you could.
Having a break from comedy is quite good.
The point with me is that it's always been, even with the stand-up, that the music has to be right. You have to take it seriously. You have to try and play it as faithfully as possible. That way it helps the comedy. Rather than just playing it in a silly way.
My earliest memory is feeling soil between my fingers when I was around three years old.
My comedy comes from the actual music itself - they're observational musical gags. I could take the music away and it would just be some words.
I was asked to do an ad campaign for a supermarket once. I was baffled. It's strange when you realise your popularity or reputation is a marketable commodity; it's a stock, a currency.
There was something about stand-up that music wouldn't give me, which was my love of the spoken word and the mercurial tendency of language to respond to what happens to you.
I grew up in a little town between Bath and Bristol with my parents and grandparents in the same house. It was rural and idyllic.
I did a show in this tiny town called Longyearbyen. We went snowmobiling around Svalbard and saw Arctic foxes, snow bunting, polar bear footprints and almost got lost in a blizzard.
I am pretty laid-back as a parent, but I do like a lot of activity. So I am constantly suggesting things to do that involve some physical activity: cycling, mountain biking and paddleboarding.
I quite like confounding people's expectations.
I used to live on a houseboat near Hammersmith Bridge.
I don't like labels. I have always fought against that as a stand-up.
Comedy can be quite all consuming at times, and if you're not careful you end up doing a tour, then a DVD, then another tour then a DVD. Suddenly the years have just flown by.
I said to my wife that if I had enough money I'd have my arms lengthened. Slightly longer arms would be great.
In a way, I wish none of it had ever happened - Facebook, Twitter - if it had never happened the world would have just carried on serenely. It's utterly redundant and yet we all have to be involved in it somehow.
I used to like beer, but it makes me feel slightly queasy.
I'm one for new things: I like new technology, I like new music, I'm not entrenched in some view of what culture should be. I like the fact that it's constantly changing and that language is changing, that behaviour changes.
London is a great place to be over Christmas.
I was an only child but I never longed for a sibling. It just didn't occur to me.
