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 mean in recent years, I think you've only got to sell thirty or forty thousand to get a #1.

When we did Top of the Pops for the third time, we decided to do it as a television program here called Come Dancing, which is not as rude as it sounds.

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.

But I mean, again, Zappa's far more musical than the Bonzos ever were.

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

Eric Clapton always wanted to come out onstage with a stuffed parrot on his shoulder.