The Trees was four complete nuts. We didn't have a damn thing in common except insanity. So we fought a lot. And we had two brothers - who fought like brothers.
I like Steve Gadd, everything he did with Steely Dan. There's so many. I like everything.
Dan Radcliffe and Rupert Grint to me are like a pair of warm-hearted brothers.
I'd taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn't a musical theater person at all.
I just like to hop up on the dance floor and do my thing.
When I coach dancers, I always like to get on the dance floor with them or describe something by showing them.
Dance music is like a virus: it has affected so many different genres.
I've played festivals in Australia. If it's a dance music festival or mainstream festival, there's maybe, like, 10 percent who pay attention to the music.
What I don't like is dance music or hip hop or any of that sort of thing.
I would have young dancers come to me and ask me questions and want to know what my experiences were like: 'What's it like being a black dancer?' So I just felt like it was necessary for me to share my experiences with them.
I like to shop, but I don't like to go out to dances.
The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.
When I was dancing, I felt in control and happy. I'm a Virgo, so I really like to be in control.
I didn't read a lot of comic books. But I was into 'Dandy and The Beano,' which were like a weekly pulp fiction that featured characters like Desperate Dan, Dennis the Menace, and Billy Whizz - pretty simplistic stuff but very entertaining.
I go out and look for a good story to tell and if I like it enough and I decide to direct it, I become dangerously involved in becoming a part of that story.
Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.
I have learned that European politics is very much like Danish politics. You have all the rumours.
Watch out for guys like Scott Piercy and Danny Willett. They both play really good on fast, fast greens.
My friend Danny Clinch, who's a photographer, gave me a big, signed, numbered print of a photo he took of Eddie Vedder in Seattle. It's hung in my writing room where I have posters of writers that inspire me. They're all pointing at me. Tom Waits is like, 'Don't sell out!'
For the first six months of my stand-up career, I was talking like Danny Dyer. I was doing a lot of 'alright guvnors?' It wasn't true to who I was.
