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

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

Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist

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

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

You initially become funny as a kid because you're looking for attention and love. Psychologists think that's all to do with mother abandonment. I think John Cleese has his depressions, and Terry Gilliam's the same. All of us together make one completely insane person.

I never think in terms of target audience. I try to write what makes me laugh, so I'm the target audience. I guess I just hope there's another person in America like me.