We learnt a lot because we got in with real choreographers who tell you what they need from a song, because a song has to advance the story. Then real directors like Mike Nichols tell you where you can have 'B themes' and 'C themes', and we go oh yes, B themes and C themes! So we were taught in the finest school amongst the finest people. And also by the school of experience.

No day of my life passes without someone saying the words 'Monty Python' to me. It's not bad.

The idea that we evolved with these thoughts is actually very fascinating - to me.

My wife, Tania, is very big on dogs, so I'm always paying out to animal charities.

What's brown and sounds like a bell? DUNG!

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

Talent is always more interesting - ambition is not interesting. If you have talent, you have to find ways of expressing it, but you may not be a success in the world's terms.