Executives do not on the whole do well with comedy. They can't understand it, they can't read it, they can't spot it.

John Cleese once told me he'd do anything for money. So I offered him a pound to shut up, and he took it.

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

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.

Americans like to think 'Python' is how English people really are. There is an element of truth to that.

I don't invest in the stock market, but I have pension funds - some in America and the UK.

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