Define yourself by what you love.

Love without evidence is stalking.

My shows are basically about ethics.

I'm quite a gregarious, outgoing person.

Who's the world going to revolve around now?

Only a ginger, can call another ginger Ginger.

Isn't this enough? Just this world? Just THIS?

Fight for what is true. What is true is enough.

A genius is a mentally ill person with an audience

I'm the son of a surgeon and the grandson of a surgeon.

I want to write musicals for my whole life. I always did.

I do feel infuriated by the things I perceive to be unfair.

I don't quite think I'm big enough to deserve an orchestra.

I am a very ginger-coloured person, but I don't have orange hair.

Most of the best songwriters that ever lived couldn't read music.

I just always thought 'Groundhog Day' was potentially a great idea.

It's the fine balance of caffeine and alcohol that bookends my days

I can make rhymes. My style of writing is kind of childlike anyway.

It’s an incredibly exciting thing, this one, meaningless life of yours.

I'm not a total chump. I write stuff that's reasonably musically complex.

I spend so much time hating (my body) but it never says a bad word about me

To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are.

I don't like courting controversy because I don't like people not liking me.

Throughout history, every mystery ever solved has turned out to be NOT magic.

My whole mission is to have a long, interesting career, not a short spiky one.

Empathy is intuitive, but it is also something you can work on intellectually.

I had written six scores by the time I was 20, and I'd never been paid a dollar.

I like stories, and I really like words. So I like stories that rely on dialogue.

There are children in Africa, starving to death, and you don't hear them whinging.

I've spent years on stage adjusting the timing of a line to infinitesimal degrees.

You know what they call alternative medicine that's been proved to work? - Medicine.

The day they discover yoga mats are carcinogenic will be the happiest day of my life.

That's the incredible thing about 'Matilda': it keeps manifesting itself in different ways.

Trying to work out where you find meaning and sense in a meaningless world is my obsession.

Trouble is, I'm not a real ginger. I'm just a ginger-bearded, pale-skinned, strawberry blond.

I'm a comedian because I want people to like me. That's really why all comedians are comedians.

Once you reject evidence as a source of knowledge, you don't gotta believe nothin' you don't like.

What I've created comedically owes a lot to my ignorance of comedy and love of making theatre stuff.

London's my favourite place. I lived in Crouch End for years and come back as much as I possibly can.

Just because you're right-wing shouldn't mean you don't believe climate science data. They're unrelated.

Because I'm on my own on stage and wear bare feet and look like a pixie, people always think I'm little.

The thing I love about my career is the variety and that people can't predict what I'm going to do next.

As someone who has never been in a gossip magazine, I do not deserve the contempt of the term 'celebrity.'

Comedy actually works best when you're living in an OK world, and you are pointing out the hypocrisy in apathy.

I have come to the conclusion there is no point making anything if you're not going to make people laugh and cry.

I see myself as an utterly unchanged Perth dude who likes sport as much as I like music and who just likes my family.

Science adjusts its views based on what's observed Faith is the denial of observation so that belief can be preserved.

You do get a bit paranoid that you're becoming a sort of narcissist, an artistic solipsist when you're doing stand-up.

I saw 'The Wild Duck' at the Belvoir St. Theatre in Sydney, and it was one of the best pieces of theatre I'd ever seen.

That's the great part about arts - someone taking your work and making it something else; it's becomes a true collaboration.

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