Graham Chapman

John Howard Davies was not a very human person... if you made a mistake of any kind, any sort of pause in speech, he would treat you rather as if he was a schoolmaster.

It's nice to see that look of alarm on the faces of the others.

World War II... did not happen to everyone, but it happened to most. There were people from Germany who were throwing bombs at us.

I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous...' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.

I spent 25 years clearly understanding that I'm not gonna meet Bono or the Edge. But then it happened at the Grammys when we were all backstage and I just about fell out of my shoes.

I like involved projects. I'm driven by the idea of characters and the song-cycle form is similar to a musical.