I think most musicians do like to have a laugh.

No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!

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.

Because Larry, by then, was a drummer, who would sort of get bored and tired, and rather stand up and blow kisses to people. So we needed the bass to sort of drive along.

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

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

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.