My father, who was a sergeant in the RAF during the Second World War, was killed in a hitchhiking accident while returning home on compassionate leave. As a result, my mother had to get work, as a nurse, and at seven the RAF put me into a boarding school and ex-orphanage called the Royal Wolverhampton School.

They're a typical Hollywood audience. All the kids are on drugs and all the adults are on roller skates.

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.

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

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

There's animals like us existing and thinking and giving interviews on Australian television.

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