Many years ago I also bought a house in Provence for about 70,000 francs. It had no electricity or running water, and no road leading to the house, but gradually we made improvements. It's my escape and I love it.

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will make me go in a corner and cry by myself for hours.

I'm not really a celebrity; I'm just vestigially left over from doing stuff from before.

There's no gap between the writer and the performer, which is what I think makes [Monty] Python unique. Five or six people who write Python and five or six who act it. That's what makes it unique.

A nod's as good as a wink to a blind bat!

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

To me, the musical is best when it's a musical comedy. So if you have a very, very funny show, and very good, funny songs, that's what the musical does best.