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" I want to create a world where all the rules are different. It should be magical to enter. "

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" I've got a lot of friends with whom I discuss jazz. "

" Pain - that is what life is about, isn't it? Suffering with moments of reprieve. "

" Sometimes, you write things that sound really great when you're at home but don't work when you shine the light of an audience on them. Great writing and live writing are two separate things. "

" Comedians are not well people. Well people are not drawn to creating. "

" I could say I'm a writer or that I'm a musician but I don't really do music; I do music to go with things I'm developing. Then I do act in a few things, but I'm not really an actor. I'm not a comedian, but I am known for comedy. I just don't know. I feel like I'm a slightly interdisciplinary jack of all trades. "

" For me, there's no dichotomy between being shy or a performer, because I think it's more a way of slightly presenting a version of things to the world. "

" We should send a load of bad celebrities to colonise Mars. They would have to mate in space, and then their children would be sent back to Earth in 50 years' time. "

" You don't need a high concept to make a great film, of course. 'Withnail & I' is not - it's probably not much on paper, but it's one of the funniest films ever made. "

" I miss quite major cultural signposts quite often. "

" It's not immediately categorisable. I don't know what to say when anyone asks what the 'Boosh' is. "

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" Life without music would be a mistake. "

" I've done interviews in the past where, apparently, I didn't give the journalist any eye contact. I'm a bit shy, yes. I've thought about refusing to do any press at all. "

" I write tragedies and things when I'm alone. Chekhovian dramas. "

" It's a weird profession, as I don't really consider myself an actor. I did at one point, and I went and started doing auditions, and I was so useless at them and so demoralised by doing audition after audition and not getting them and also not being able to take it in my stride at all. I just felt crushed and worthless. "

" With the 'Boosh,' we were trying to do this strange, weird thing that had its own language and visual style, and it wasn't really what the powers that be wanted. "

" We just thought of 'Boosh' as an extension of our childhoods in a way, the stuff we had grown up on and loved: 'Monty Python,' The Goodies, Frank Zappa. It spoke to a certain type of person, and we just carried on doing it. "

" Musicals are just funny to me. "

" We did have that, in the background of the character and the show, 'Mindhorn,' set on the Isle of Man, that every episode they would have to mention the temperate microclimate of the Isle of Man. "

" It's strange, but something about lack of structure needs a structure itself. Otherwise, after a while, it's like looking at a Rothko painting or a Peter Greenaway film. You think, 'OK, I want to see something else now.' "

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" Most comedians are borderline psychotic. It's what makes their work interesting. "

" The profession is rife with fear about your age, about your validly, longevity, appearance. It's vanity, and it's hard to sort of avoid all those things; they come at you as an actor. "

" Sport doesn't do anything for me. And I don't do anything for it. "

" With something that's not based just in comedy, you can be a bit weirder in a slightly realistic way. "

" When things start running a bit too well on the tracks, I tend to derail them if I can. "

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" Me and Noel went to HBO once and pitched this really ludicrous idea about us driving around in a haunted car, and they just stared at us. Literally stared at us! It was awful. Luckily, we were together, so we could laugh about it, but if we were on our own, it would have been one of the worst moments ever. "