It's thanks to the papers that the people learn sae much aboot an artist in America; it's thanks tae them that they're sae interested in him.
I'm no saying the papers didn't rub my fur the wrang way once or twice; they made mair than they should, I'm thinking, o' the jokes aboot me and the way I'd be carfu' wi' ma siller.

But they were aye good natured aboot it.

It's a strange thing, that way that folk think I'm sae close wi' my money.

I'm canny; I like to think that when I spend my money I get its value in return.

But I'm no the only man i' the world feels sae aboot it; that I'm sure of.