Eric Idle

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

I love my family, my wife, my kids, my dogs, my home, my life. I am a very happy and contented man.

At least in America, you have freedom of speech, which is a good thing. It's just a question of whether you're allowed to use it on 'Fox News'.

To me, tattoos are a way of people being able to express themselves and have other people look at them and get a little insight into who they are, without ever even saying a word to them.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.

It took me realizing that a broken heart has never actually killed anyone to find the courage to ask for what I want, in just about every situation. That was part of my own growing up.