When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come up at five in the morning and they were all chanting. And we went on the beach and we got chased by a mad dog - big as a donkey.
“Gil Thorpe is a great diversion and is to book writing as poetry is to prose.”
“Sometimes when you're in the storm, it's harder and maybe when it's over, then you can look back on it.”