You could feel the place going crazy because we hadn't been on stage together for maybe 35 years and the audience could just feel us in the darkness come on and they went nuts. It made the little hairs stand up on the back of my neck and we sang Sit on My Face, which I thought was wonderfully appropriate for George's memorial, and then we bowed and we showed our bare asses.

They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.

I try to not to be a celebrity as much as possible.

Never do things for money. It's always the things you do for love that turn out to pay the best.

I live in a Spanish-style hillside home in Los Angeles, California. I paid $900,000 in 1995. It's perhaps worth about $3m now. Thankfully, I paid off my mortgage before the crash because I could see it coming. I worried that I would be caught having to pay off a very high mortgage for a house I couldn't sell.

I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.

My wife, Tania, is very big on dogs, so I'm always paying out to animal charities.