You can maybe be artistic and really original and creative, but as long as it's got that funniness at the root of it, then certain people are going to love it just because they need a laugh.

Dogs are more of a responsibility than kids - you can send a kid off to their grandparents or a nanny, but with a dog you can't do that.

My dad was in the army so we moved around a lot and I changed schools every year and had to make new friends, and I found that if I was the funny guy I could do that easier.

To open the majority of peoples' minds to something new is difficult. I always think that, as long as it's funny underneath, then you can argue that a teaspoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.

There are no real guidelines or maps in Australia as to how to write a show, whereas in Hollywood it's where the TV industry is created and there's a lot of work that goes into development.

I often don't like seeing how different things are made. I'm not a big fan of behind the scenes stuff.

I'm sort lucky in that for me, I'm a writer now. I started as an actor but I'm a writer and so things like 'Wilfred' and shows like that are where I escape to.

It's great to write for actors when you know who they are. I think I prefer it.

British comedy - which has been a big inspiration to me for many years - is very different to Australian comedy and different again to American comedy.

Back in Australia, I did foster care for sick cats for years, and I was always most successful with the animals when I was given two - a brother and sister.

I like drama as well. When I played Hamlet, I got one review that said, "This must surely be the funniest Hamlet in history," but schoolgirls would still cry when he died.

Be careful who influence and inspire your life. Their ways seem like leading to life but the truth is, they lead to eternal death

All instruments sound fantastic in a church.

When somebody says to you the real USC is in L.A., tell them we were a school before they were a state.

I'd like to be writing songs for other people - I just like writing songs.

It appears to be a case of revenge run amok.

I think all the stuff that happens before the pictures are taken is much more exciting.

Education is preeminently a matter of quality, not amount.

I find it odd that people take me seriously.

Spring is the only revolutionary whose revolution has succeeded.

I'm also getting an Ovation Legend, because I like them so much.