If I've inadvertently become some sort of role model for failed comedians, then it's really backfired very badly on me.
“I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.”
“I was never trying to write a hit. I was just trying to write good songs and get a message out, and it was my great good fortune to be popular.”