Jim Capaldi Music Quotations

Next to the drawing - I'm not really even trying to write a song - I had written a letter and this character who had become Mr. Fantasy.

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

We loved everything. We wanted to be able to do anything.

This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such alot of fans that were waiting for us and Brazilians are great people. It's now my second home.

I always felt from a very early age that whatever one's role in life is, we all have our own particular style, our own particular character.

We all ended up jumping up and down, hugging each other when Ali won;cause Ali is the greatest.

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

I just was very enthusiastic and was quite forward, open and upfront with people and they would just like live along side my energy.

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?

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.

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

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.

You try to be moody when you're young and it had a good ring to it.