Jim Capaldi

The States are great. I'd like to go just to see life, see things and hear people talk. It's like a circus…

— Jim Capaldi

If you take the time away, you take the character away.

— Jim Capaldi

It's a sort of philosophy you cook up for yourself. You probably write things the same as everybody else, but it's your…

— Jim Capaldi

I have always had a tremendous amount of energy and any band I was ever in from the age of fourteen, I…

— Jim Capaldi

They gave it to us for about five bucks a week, and we just went there to live. Probably the first band…

— Jim Capaldi

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

— Jim Capaldi

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

— Jim Capaldi

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

— Jim Capaldi

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

— Jim Capaldi

This kind of music was just hitting England, so we were getting this following in clubs in Birmingham just cause we were…

— Jim Capaldi

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

— Jim Capaldi

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

— Jim Capaldi

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

— Jim Capaldi

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

— Jim Capaldi

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

— Jim Capaldi

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

— Jim Capaldi

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

— Jim Capaldi

If you have words and want to write music for them, the words hit you with a feeling which you can't really…

— Jim Capaldi

We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person…

— Jim Capaldi

You have to have a strong title. It's got to say something.

— Jim Capaldi

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up…

— Jim Capaldi

I have to confess that a strong contributing factor was that I had just taken what was probably the first acid ever…

— Jim Capaldi

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and…

— Jim Capaldi

It's strange the way people hear and see things. Like going to films - —violent films. To me, seeing violence in a…

— Jim Capaldi

This was an important part of my life. But it was also sad that we didn't play there, cause we had such…

— Jim Capaldi