"[Being in The Young Charlatans] was at the time when we were first starting to hear about punk rock and stuff like that, but probably most of the influences, because punk was something that was relatively new - most of the influences would have been things that had come out earlier in the '70s. I know Ollie [Olsen] was really influenced by people like Can and early electronic bands like Neu. Also people like Roxy Music and David Bowie, who have since become, unfortunately, vapid."

Rowland S. Howard, Your Flesh #25, 1992