Staggeringly Quotes

The English countryside is the most staggeringly beautiful place. I can`t spend as much time there as I like, but I like everything about it. I like fishing, I like clay- pigeon shooting. I am not involved in any `issues` because it`s too sensitive for me - or my wife - to get involved. Every time we express an opinion it becomes a whole thing in itself. And the whole purpose of living in the countryside was to get away from hundreds of people. My wife fell off a horse, and suddenly there are hundreds of people around.

On living in Eric Clapton`s country house: "I loved living in the country; that was the best time we had. It was the most staggeringly romantic garden. There was a sadness in the house and garden, a kind of melancholy which was very Eric, in a way, and very creative."