Purple People

“So I was um, we were in Cornwall, we were hanging out, a bunch of us and um the great thing is we always had this saying that ‘it’s six o’clock in the world somewhere’ and that means you can have a drink. You know, when you think it’s too early to drink and we don’t drink that much. That depends on who we’re comparing ourselves to. But we have a European um way we look at things. It’s not like um we never kind of go to work. I can’t play the piano if I’m doing anything ‘cause I can’t find it, for one thing. And then once I’m sitting on the stool I still can’t find it. So, there was a time though when we would decide it was six o’clock and it was like nine-thirty in the morning... and um, one time we were having this moment and my friend Tam was telling me a story about a girl named Betsy Brown who used to torture her and come up to her.. She does this thing, she used to come up to me and go, ‘Hi, I’m Betsy Brown, do you do judo? I do judo.’ And I went into the studio and this kind of happened...” [Seattle End Sessions - September 11, 1998]