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Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist

People who are interested in money are really uninteresting people. They look like Donald Trump.

So it became in my mind a nine-carol service; an oratorio and orchestral concert all in one, but with narration. That's something I've learned about, because it's the story that keeps you in there. I wrote a libretto and I gave it to John Du Prez. We normally don't work in this fashion but I said off you go, and he went off for about three months. He brought me back this demo which blew my mind.

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

Everybody has their own free choice to do what they want.

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.