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

I will jump on anybody's private plane at the drop of a hat. I'm an old-fashioned lower-middle-class boy.

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.

I hate movies. They're so boring. So tedious.

I got locked into a tradition [at Cambridge] of doing comedy.

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

I always have a feeling you should move the playing field and the minute you know what you're doing, you're wrong. Therefore, I wanted us not to try to follow Spamalot immediately, but to do something different. This is perfect because it uses all the same skills, like story telling and lyric writing and music writing, but it's presenting it in a different form. And of course it gives me and John a nice chance to perform and show off which is also fun.