(talking about Keith Moon)

Yeah, he was supposed to be in Life of Brian. In fact he died before he got down to Tunisia and although I didn’t know him well, I had bumped in to him. The first time we met him was when we were out in Barbados writing Life of Brian. And he turned up, he was wonderful. What you saw was what Keith Moon was. He was funny, he was smart, he was crazed, and these people keep disappearing. He did it then, Hunter S. Thompson did it recently. There’s not much craziness left. There’s craziness out there but its dumb craziness. There’s a difference between craziness that is smart and funny and witty and clever, and dumb brutish craziness, which there’s too much of.

(from an interview on Dreams: The Terry Gilliam Fanzine)