Spike Milligan

As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really - more an illness.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mother rode a horse and sang in the Governor-General's band, so that made her important as well.

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.

If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.