Creativity is a highfalutin word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday.
Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.
I sit in places like Costa Coffee in Banstead and write rubbish. I need a deadline. I think about the 44 tour dates and keep imagining standing in front of all these people. Then every day I write 15 jokes minimum.
I used to never feel pressure to be creative; it's always just been a fun thing. And then suddenly, it's my job, and people are asking, 'Where's the record?'
We like to wait to a point where we have to get in there and write a record because we're just so built up.
I got my first show at Blum & Poe because Paul McCarthy postponed his show, and they came to my studio and asked me if I could put together a show in two weeks.
But I always seem to finish a book and then think, oh God, I've got to pay a tax bill, so I'd better write a novel, so I tend not to stop and learn word processing.
If you were to say to me that you needed a romantic and sentimental song in four hours, I would have that song written in four hours.
