the thing that kept me on music was . my brother going, "oh, come and work out the intro to light my fire", because, you know, we'd listen and i would do the keyboard bits. do you regard yourself first and foremost as a musician or a comedian? 0h, certainly not a comedian. i mean, i would consider myself a musician and then probably a writer in the broader sense and then an actor and then a comedian, probably, now. now? now. while i was a comedian, i would have happily called myself a comedian. but even during that time, i tended not to call myself a comedian. so you've passed through the comic phase, then? well, really, i got known as a comedian, but i was always a cabaret artist who was just pretty funny between songs. the best thing i ever did was stop calling myself a cabaret artist and start calling myself a comedian, and everything went bang. cheering the first choice that you've made for this cultural life is being asked to write a musical version of love's labour's lost when you were still a teenager. yeah. what was this for? well, i was very lucky. i went to a school that had a drama department. in fact, it had a sort