Spike Milligan

As I kept having episodes of depression, I realized that it was not a one-off: that I had, well, not a disease, really - more an illness.

Money couldn't buy friends, but you got a better class of enemy.

My father was a soldier, which meant that he was a warrior, which meant that he was important. My mother rode a horse and sang in the Governor-General's band, so that made her important as well.

If you want something Scottish, go get yourself a kilt.

We'll get material in there and all of a sudden I'll switch the material around or the order of the show.

I was feeling a strong need to change, grow, and break with particular things that were going on in my life and my history, and the material was the perfect answer for that.