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When I Wrote The Song, I Had The Sea Near Bombay In Mind. We Stayed At A Hotel By The Sea, And The Fishermen Come Up At Five In The Morning And They Were All Chanting. And We Went On The Beach And We Got Chased By A Mad Dog-big As A Donkey. ... I Think That Songwriting Changed When Groups Started Spending More Time In The Studio. ... I've Written So Many Songs About Englishmen, I Have To Go Elsewhere. ... Our Repertoire Consisted Of Rhythm And Blues, Sort Of Country Rhythm And Blues, Sonny Terry Things.

I'm Susceptible To That Sort Of Thing - To Walls And Flowers. You Can Probably Get Something More From A Wall Than A Person Sometimes. It's Just Put Somewhere.

If After Two Weeks You Still Can't Write Your Middle-eight, The Best Course Of Action Is To See A Psychiatrist

Underneath That Rude Exterior, You've Got A Heart Of Gold.

What I Try To Do Probably Doesn't Come Out. What I've Worked Out What I Do - I Might Not Be Right - Is To Do Something Very Personal, And Then Suddenly I Look At It, Up In The Air. I Blow It Up And Look At It And Then I Come Down Again - A Better Man.