British Quotes

This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were trying to do something different.

They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band that ever did that back then and it became the famous cottage.

There I met Gordon Jackson and Dave Meredith who were playing in local bands.

So the name of a group has to say something. The name has to be strong.

Mr. Fantasy was the only song that was scribbling on a piece of paper.

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.

I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.

I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever made, given to me by a guy called Johnny Fellows, who had just returned from America.

I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I would always be the one who would describe the future and vibe everyone up.

Guys would hang out in groups just to be with the music.

Far From Home was also my idea from a magazine I'd seen.

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.

Because I would just tell everyone it was going to be great and just put that belief in them.

After that, I specifically started writing lyrics. I would like sweat and think and get it all together.

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

But then you have to write a song, so at that point, I picked up the reins and started to write lyrics.

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

Well, in brief, I was discovered by a lady called Beth Boldt. She had also been a model. She used to take pictures of the girls she found, and she took a picture of me one day in my school uniform, and it all kind of started from there.

The worst was when my skirt fell down to my ankles, but I had on thick tights underneath.

My features are completely ethnic.

It's a new challenge to see how people can change your look. I like words like transformation, reinvention, and chameleon. Because one word I don't like is predictable.

In fact, I don't read newspapers any longer.

I've been doing my job well for 17 years. People must see something in me. Otherwise, I'd be over and out.

I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.

I never diet. I smoke. I drink now and then. I never work out.

I make a lot of money and I'm worth every cent.

I loved watching so many of the great designers I've worked with do what they do. That's why I'm still loyal to the designers that I've known since I was 16.

I love England, especially the food. There's nothing I like more than a lovely bowl of pasta.

I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.