If you're famous, you have to [be overly generous], otherwise people say, "Eric Idle came in and only left me $4." I always tip more than people expect.

I get to be the first doctor in the family [because of the honorary degree they're giving me].

The Minister of Transport issued this appeal to motorists: Can anyone give him a lift to Leicester?

I didn't want to be big Mr. Ego walking around.

I like the idea of being out there regularly with an audience and with a funny gang of people. That's what I grew up with - doing television, doing shows every week.

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.

A lot has been said about politics; some of it complimentary, but most of it accurate