Quotes by Chris Bailey

For a time that you couldn't get a gig if you didn't look a certain way.

I always liked the intensity of the recording.

I am very proud of The Saints and I'm very glad that I've been associated with them all these years, but the next record is the best record... has to be the philosophy for any band that remains even halfway decent or vibrant, and that is kind of where my head's at.

I find it odd at 47 that I can go to festivals and be in the company of groups that are much younger and we are playing a not-dissimilar set.

I have never been over fond of scenes anywhere.

I lived We had moved to London and were making our first tentative steps as a touring band-as is the way with The Saints-we had changed the line up but were starting to get the live thing down.

I was listening to the first record the other day, and it sounds remarkably contemporary.

Lots of people I know have bootlegged tapes of performances and if they play it I will be transported back sometimes with happiness, sometimes with horror.