When I started working, I didn't have a clue what I was doing, in that I was just wandering around, hoping that I could succeed. Then after I got a little under my belt, it took me about 25 years to feel like I knew what I was doing.
It's both funny and sad which seem to me to be the two basic ingredients of good comedy.
The music of language became extremely important to me, and obvious to me. By the time I was seven I was writing myself. I was a poet.