For us, the world makes sense through music, and we escape through it, too. — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
I think within our music there is a real strong idea of search, search for identity, search for place, search for time,… — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
I was into the 'Dennis The Menace' comic strip long before I got into music, and it still makes me chuckle. — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
You don't know you've got a hit when you write it - because music is all subjective, you know? — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
It's a mysterious thing, music. You're just never sure. You 'get' it, but does anyone else even get a chance to know… — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
What it boils down to is that we look for a melody and we look for a lyric, and we look for… — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
Rockfield is a famous studio where we recorded early Simple Minds songs. It holds a bit of our own history and Queen… — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
For us every gig is a responsibility. We don't want people seeing us then saying, 'They're not as good as The Proclaimers.' — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
I sleep five hours, I get up at 4 A.M., I take three or four cold showers a day. I do things differently. — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
I mean, the thing with Simple Minds is that there's many Simple Minds within Simple Minds. There was definitely an electronic art-rock phase; a… — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
When we were growing up the Barrowland was ominous. It had closed down. It was synonymous with Bible John. — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
I go to bed at 8 P.M. and get up at 4:30 A.M. Who the hell is gonna live with that? — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
If you speak to Iggy Pop, John Lydon or the Foo Fighters and ask them to name their favourite three gigs I know the… — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
My first-ever game was at the 1966 World Cup. The old man was a bricklayer's labourer, on a job in the north-east of England.… — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
Being in the studio for the first time was a daunting process. I didn't know what the engineers did. A mix? What's a mix?… — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
As for my all-time sporting hero? There is one who towers above all. I first knew him when he was called Cassius Clay but… — Jim Kerr Copy Share Image
