Funny is funny. I dare anyone to look at Tim Conway and Harvey Korman doing the dentist sketch, which is more than 40 years old, and not scream with laughter.

What other people call dark and despairing, I call funny.

I guess when you turn off the main road, you have to be prepared to see some funny houses.

People ask 'do you make a conscious effort not to swear?' - if you're doing silly stuff you're not tempted to put swearing in. All the comics from my childhood, who were funny without swearing, were the people that influenced me. What I do is quite traditional anyway.

Naked dudes are inherently funny.

I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I'm a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called 'Fame L.A.' The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn't very funny, so they asked me, 'What else can you do?' So I played a singer.

I think if everyone would write down the funny stories from their own childhoods, the world would be a better place.

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

It's funny - there can be so many people around you and so many fans, and you can still feel a bit lonely. I think I combat that by having my sister on tour with me, so I'm never alone, which is so lovely.

Keep your sense of humor, my friend; if you don't have a sense of humor it just isn't funny anymore.