very well and neither did he, but he was much more interested in music than i was. he had all the australian bands on his wall and would, because he was learning chords, he could teach himself songs and that was, in the end, 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