Jim Capaldi

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

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

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Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

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

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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.

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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.

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We all had a desire and appreciation for such a wide range of music.

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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?

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Quotes by Jim Capaldi