30 Quotes by Mike Scott

It is a live album from 40 shows recorded on the 2003 and 2004 tour. I have always tried to keep the same band together but this line-up is the best and still includes Steve Wickham on fiddle who I met when he was doing a Sinead O'Connor demo in 1985.

It is not that anybody wants to prohibit work, but we can't have noise like that that early in the morning, ... There is an expectation that there shouldn't be loud noises going on at that time.

I think we're mature enough to move on.

It feels good, but we are not satisfied. Tonight we celebrate and tomorrow is Communications Tech.

You always want to be like your dad when you grow up.

Those guys are better, they may even be stronger. You never know, they may be quicker. But it doesn't matter. What is it they say? It's not the size of the dog but the size of the fight in the dog.

We opened the boxes. There was like a gleam on everybody's face. We knew we were going to get some shoes, but we didn't know if they would be all black, white, blue and gold, or what.

We're trying to break the ice here and hoping they'll want to sit down and meet with us.

The president is constantly talking about how tough he is on terrorism, yet he's willing to outsource one of our most vulnerable areas, the ports, to a country with known ties to terrorism.