“I remained a fan. But what happens when you’re so involved is you start spending all your time based on the music that you’re involved with, you just don’t have as much time.”

I had promised myself when I first got started that if I got to the point my life where I started feeling ‘Gee, I’d rather be at home than at work’, and that started happening more often than not, that it would be time to leave.

I’d wake up some days and go “Oh, I don’t even know if I want to go face this anymore”. I would, I would go do it, I’m a dutiful kind of person and not afraid of work.

Now that I’m afraid was institutionalized, and the great thing about the Canadian content regulations is that it broke that open.

It’s amazing how much of that music I still listen to actually. I was such a fan of music, even after I got started professionally

And then all of a sudden that starts disappearing from the book, and just about everything I’m talking about from that point on are the records that I’m totally involved in.

I took that opinion to the wall, often in public, often had to… I often had to fight in public with the very same people who I was trying to convince to play my records!

I noticed when I was writing the book that I would tend to mention ‘outside’ songs right through to about the middle of the 70’s.

I couldn’t believe it the first time I heard one of my records on the radio, and I STILL love hearing anything I’m involved with on radio, and some of my best friends were from radio. But we were on different sides of that argument, there’s no question about that.

I always try to make the music that I like and think my fans will like.

I didn’t realize until I was older what a huge music fan my daddy really was, and actually that my grandma played banjo at one time, and I didn’t even know that until a year or two ago.

I hear about stars being torn to pieces by fans.

The fans and the club will need to get away from the philosophy of ‘pretty football’, that’s got to go.

The fan base that I’ve had all these years has come along.

The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it.

We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.

And lacked ambition to take Tottenham to where the fans wanted them to be.