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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.

None of us wanted to be the bass player. In our minds he was the fat guy who always played at the back.

But Dennis was a really solid musician, and we really needed somebody who could play bass like him.

So our ears got used to listening to jazz in the place that it was that the bass player could not play. No one really realized it and really addressed it until the bass players who could play their instrument came along and started doing something with it.

Bill Withers and Curtis Mayfield, those are the people who informed me in playing the bass.

There was not a lot of rock n' roll in the house. Our parents didn't think it was very groovy, and I tend to agree with them. If you grew up with Charlie Parker, Bill Haley wasn't very hip.

I don't think we listened to any rock n' roll at all in the early days. It was Miles Davis and John Coltrane 95% of the time.

I wish I could play bass like Larry Graham or Bootsy Collins. My God, I'd give up just about everything else for that.

We were either listening to jazz or Robert Johnson, the old blues man, but not to our peers.

But I was in the Radiohead studio today and Phil was there drumming and Thom was there playing. We feel like we've only just stopped and already people are wanting us to carry on.