Dad Quote by Jim Kerr

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

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

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

When we were growing up the Barrowland was ominous. It had closed down. It was synonymous with Bible John.

— Jim Kerr

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

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

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

I'd always been interested in the idea of the outsider.

— Jim Kerr

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

I think it's because of dreamers that the world turns.

— Jim Kerr

Every generation has its soundtrack.

— Jim Kerr

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