Joe Carroll Quotes (11 Quotes)

He told me that he had been released, that he was perfectly OK and in an Iraqi government compound having a beer.

I thought first when he was calling that maybe his captors were allowing him to make one call from his cell or something.

We are over the moon at the news.

I'm currently sitting in a house in Baghdad which has turned on its generator now for the family here to watch Saddam.

He went out of his way I think to reassure us that he wasn't in danger and that he was in the hotel a lot. And then he had two drivers and he had two interpreters, so he himself used to play it down,

The Guardian and the British Embassy are doing their work. They've got a lot of people on the ground to work on this,

But we kind of knew, given the set-up there, that there must be danger for all journalists working there.

He put me in the boot of his car and drove me alone and dropped me in the middle of Baghdad,

He said if you observed basic rules and security you would be OK. We knew he was playing it down for our sake and there was obvious danger.

There's no such thing as disability insurance for a musician.

Companies that give a million to (the high-profile) campaign don't add to what their normal giving is, ... They cut back (with) local charities. It's been four years in a row now. I joke that God's punishing me.