"It was inspired by German terrorist Ulrike Meinhoff. The Baader-Meinhoff Gang had just been arrested, and the phrase 'say it in broken English' came from something that flashed on the TV screen, this mysterious subtitle: 'broken English...spoken English...' I don't know what it was in reference to, but I wrote it down in my notebook"
-p. 234 of Faithfull: An Autobiography
"It was inspired by German terrorist Ulrike Meinhoff. The Baader-Meinhoff Gang had just been arrested, and the phrase 'say it in broken English' came from something that flashed on the TV screen, this mysterious subtitle: 'broken English...spoken English...' I don't know what it was in reference to, but I wrote it down in my notebook" -p. 234 of Faithfull: An Autobiography