They understood that I was not just a comedian, not just a "Scotch comic." I maun amuse an audience wi' my songs, but unless I mak' them think, and, whiles, greet a bit, too, I'm no succeeding.

There's plenty can sing a comic song as weel as I can.

But that's no just the way I think of all my songs.

I try to interpret character in them.

I study queer folk o' all the sorts I see and know.