Vivian Stanshall
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"Vivian Stanshall" was an English singer-songwriter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (as a radio series for John Peel, as an Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (recording)/audio recording, as a book and as a Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (film)/film), and for narrating Mike Oldfield's album Tubular Bells.

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'If I had all the money I'd spent on drink, I'd spend it on drink.'

Why can't I be different and unusual... like everyone else?

Once I was a forty pound weakling. Now I am two separate gorillas.

Mercifully, he hit him with the soft end of the pistol.

I'm not different for the sake of being different, only for the desperate sake of being myself. I can't join your gang: you'd think I was a phony and I'd know it.

Do you know what a Palmist once said to me? She said: will you let go!