“If it hadn’t been for Guy [Stevens, Mott’s first manager/producer]…I mean, we did four stiff albums for Island Records, nowadays that’s unheard of, y’know, pretty much unheard of then. Guy kept that going, and then David gave us “All The Young Dudes”, which was the real big leg-up, y’know, and then Tony [DeFries] was…I dunno so much Tony, Tony wasn’t really that keen on us. It was David that was keen on us, and so Tony did what David wanted, y’know?…He hated me talking on stage, ’cause he wanted to give that Bowie kind of…He said, ‘Every time you open your mouth, it drives me crazy. I wish you would not do this…’ A joke…I’m not David, d’you know what I mean? I’m Ian!”

Ian Hunter, 2004