“I looked at longevity in show business when I was about 13, and the people who seemed to have longevity were the ones who'd spent quite a bit of time learning about what they were doing before they made it.”
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When I turned about 12 or 13, I realised that being funny wasn't about remembering jokes. It was about creating them.
When I wake up on a Monday morning and I realise I don't have to go and work at the civil service, I really think I've won.
Ignorance of what real learning is, and a consequent suspicion of it materialism, and a consequent intellectual laxity, both of these have done destructive work in the colleges.
I think kids slowly begin to realize that what they're learning relates to other things they know. Then learning starts to get more and more exciting.
