We've got too much still to do. We've already written about 20 or 30 new songs in a house somewhere near Dollar and they are the best things we've ever done. I haven't had that since writing Sit Down. All the band have enjoyed coming to Scotland. I holiday here quite a lot, especially near Inverness.
Scottish people are a lot cooler.
They leave us alone to get on with things. There was a time when James would never have been left alone. On the front cover of every magazine and Featurespaper, they were hailed as the new U2 or Simple Minds, playing gigs to 30,000 people a night - and, amazingly, not very happy about it all. Over the past few years, James have deliberately worked hard to under- sell themselves, to get out of the glare of the spotlight. We were normal people who, all of a sudden, had this massive hit with Sit Down.