“Moonlight Mile, is fucking Van Morrison …”

"I think we transcend all that shit that we sound like our record collection," he says. "You could take apart any band from the past and say they just sound like their influences. The MC5 weren't heavy until they supported Blue Cheer, then they got Marshall stacks and got heavy. You could say the Stooges' first album sounds like the Troggs!" he takes a deep breath before unleashing his knock-out blow of a next sentence: "Look at side two of Sticky Fingers – track one [Bitch] is the fucking Temptations' Get Ready, track two, I Got The Blues, is I've Been Loving You Too Long by Otis Redding with different lyrics, but they've done the Ike and Tina Turner arrangement of that, who supported them on their 1969 tour, then track three, Sister Morphine, which is basically a Bob Dylan song, take it down to acoustic guitar and vocals and it sounds like Visions of Johanna, then track four is Dead Flowers, which is just the fucking Flying Burrito Brothers one, he even sings like Gram Parsons, track five, Moonlight Mile, is fucking Van Morrison …"

- Bobby Gillespie til The Guardian, torsdag, d.14 marts, 2013.