I'm not careful with my money at all these days. I buy people a lot of dinners!

Life is a comedy when watching and a tragedy when experiencing. I try and share anything I have.

I've got soggy thighs. It must be dinner time.

I used to have a house in London, but couldn't face 20 more years of St John's Wood in the rain.

Monty Python paid me £20,000 to write, direct and assemble them - the cheapskates! I told them I'd never earned less in a year since leaving Cambridge. The first show sold out in 43 seconds and we ended up performing ten in total. We had no idea there would be such demand.

I liked doing live things, and with the Circus we had a live audience.

I listen to the audience and try and bounce with them. All audiences are different. But they are all homo sapiens.