Neil Innes

“It was just us lampooning our own peer group, saying, well hey, where did this stuff come from? And where does British guys get to be so good at it suddenly?”

“As I said, when we needed to move over to rock'n'roll, Sam and Vernon couldn't quite make the shift. So that's when Larry took over on drums, and we needed a bass player.”

“I see my role in the Bonzos as being the straight man, in many ways.”

“We weren't by any means like the Grateful Dead or something, who could just roll on and on and on.”

“Ladies and gentleman, I've suffered for my music, now it's your turn.”

“I suppose Roger had the license to do anything that fitted the venue.”

“But mostly, I wrote songs and Viv wrote songs.”

“I suppose we all loved those kind of sci-fi movies where terrible things came out of swamps and came to Mars. And there's usually some poor girl. All the guys are trying to desperately handle levers and saying, go to something or other.”