Tim Key

Any columnist will tell you that sometimes the well runs dry.

— Tim Key

Ever since I was able to consume entertainment, radio has been one of the main things I've devoured.

— Tim Key

If I'm writing a radio thing that's narrative, it's quite nice to stop for an hour and write a load of garbage…

— Tim Key

The bath, for me, was always a place to relax, to retreat from the hell of modern-day life. A sanctuary.

— Tim Key

Doing a new show is just so much pressure. I saw a magazine with my face on the cover and the question…

— Tim Key

Weirdly, it's much easier to write a poem than a film.

— Tim Key

Imminent resignation isn't a fun thing to have on your plate.

— Tim Key

It's vital to get something useful under your belt early doors.

— Tim Key

When I write poetry, I write in torrents. I have no interest in quality or finesse, only in quantity and waste. Scribble…

— Tim Key

Tim Vine's off the scale. Exhaustingly funny.

— Tim Key

My ideal Friday night is spent playing scrabble in my local in Kentish Town with a goon called Lenny. After I've won…

— Tim Key

I try to write jokes but when I've written about four I run out. Writing my show is a very lonely place.

— Tim Key

I used to be really good at squash until I did my shoulder in.

— Tim Key

I delivered dartboards to pubs. That wasn't when I knew I wanted to be a poet, but it was when I knew…

— Tim Key

I don't have an inflated opinion of how much artistic merit the poems I do have.

— Tim Key

Usually I write irrelevant twaddle and hope for the best.

— Tim Key

When you can't think of something interesting, you begin to wonder whether it's because your life is, in and of itself, uninteresting.

— Tim Key

I'm no art buff but I do have some art in my flat.

— Tim Key

Frame anything and it can look beautiful, in my experience.

— Tim Key

Weirdly I do have theme tunes, in the sense of walk-on music. 'O Julissi' is the best I ever heard.

— Tim Key

I'm not a great rhymer.

— Tim Key

It's possible to like other poetry and still like mine. It's also possible to be not that into poetry and still quite…

— Tim Key

I tried and failed at doing stand-up on my own in 2002 but I hadn't found my voice.

— Tim Key

I don't know what any of my shows are about.

— Tim Key

Cricket on Channel 4, what a gift.

— Tim Key