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.

When people arrived at his studio they found he had not written a single thing focusing instead on building a variety of rabbit hutches. Stanshall managed to earn some money doing various odd jobs at the Kursaal fun fair in nearby Southend-on-Sea. By now his life was dogged by alcoholism and panic attacks which he tried to control with Valium; he would have these problems for the rest of his life.