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

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

I think you often learn from failure. Success just teaches you how great you were, but in fact it's knowing what will fail that will help you to make the right choices.

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.

We destroy icons - that's what we do.

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.

I just believe in a huge universe of billions of miles.