You know, I had the ability like a catalyst to really get everybody hyped up.

- Jim Capaldi

For me, naming bands was the forerunner to really writing lyrics, because I work off titles.

- Jim Capaldi

Guys would hang out in groups just to be with the music.

- Jim Capaldi

You have to have a strong title. It's got to say something.

- Jim Capaldi

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

- Jim Capaldi

Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve…

- Jim Capaldi

The States are great. I'd like to go just to see life, see things and hear people talk. It's like a circus where different acts go on at the same tim…

- Jim Capaldi

I think you do better when you are really up for it, cause passion goes up.

- Jim Capaldi

I turned everybody on so, psychologically, I guess I was pushing the boundaries creativity.

- Jim Capaldi