I've talked a muckle i' this book aboot what I think.

Do you know why?
It's because I'm a plain man, and I think the way plain men think all ower this world.

It was the war taught me that I could talk to folk as well as sing tae them.

If I've talked tae much in this book you maun forgie me--and you maun think that it's e'en yor ain fault, in a way.
During the war, whiles I'd speak aboot this or that after my show, people paid an attention tae me that wad have been flattering if I hadn't known sae well that it was no to me they were listening.

It wasna old Harry Lauder who interested them--it was what he had to tell them.