"So I think it was, at the end of the day, looking back it was a perfect piece of pop art." "It’s a hip hop kind of mentality and be able to turn it into something … with the vocals and the melody and the lyrics that deserved 50 percent as well. "The issue was the amount of work that had gone on from the sample to create and make it into this incredible piece of music, from something which quite honestly is a piece of schmaltz as far as I'm concerned.
But as far as the money is concerned, no, that wasn’t the issue. "I mean, obviously, if it was falling into the hands of starving children, I’d have been a lot happier, it falling into the hands of Allen Klein. "It wasn't the money issue," the singer told triple j's Michael Tunn in 1998. It was Ashcroft’s focus on the creation of art and the bigger picture in life that helped him and The Verve navigate the disappointing outcome of the dispute over the ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony’ rights which has only very recently been laid to rest.
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