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

Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.
Neil Innes

So we used to look for funny songs, and learn them and play them. And we used to play them in pubs.
Neil Innes

Viv had this kind of stage presence where you couldn't ignore it. He walked onstage, he looked dangerous. You just didn't know what he was going to do.
Neil Innes

We then took a shortened version of what we'd been doing in the pubs, with the best gags and things like that, out to cabaret clubs and things in the north of England for six weeks. And we became a big success.
Neil Innes

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

We weren't going to play the show-biz game, and be obsequious.
Neil Innes

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.
Neil Innes