“It takes longer for a song to be a hit in America but when it does, it hangs around a lot longer than it does in the UK. It was unbelievable. It just went on and on and on.”
“I've certainly participated in the drink, not really in the drugs. I have to be careful what I say here. They used to say there was nothing wrong with marijuana, but I think the evidence now shows there probably is something deeply wrong with it. But I wouldn't condemn anybody for doing anything.”
“Basically, with Born Innocent we gave ourselves the target of completing it in eight months. We've done the same thing with Restless Soul. In the past we've spent too long waiting for the inspiration to come and worrying about repeating ourselves.”
“He'd been ill for about a year. He was a heavy drinker and smoker and he had problems with his heart. He was wasting away. By the end, it was a relief because he was in so much pain and he was so weak. He died in the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy and we were all there.”
“We thought if we were going to have a chance it would be to control the tempo. The challenge tonight was that we asked them to do something that is different than what we typically do but, again, we felt like that was our best opportunity. It got up-tempo a little bit in the second half and that?s when you could see the separation in the athletic ability.”
