Knopfler wrote this (and other songs of the Shangri-La album) after a motorcycle accident that left him unable to play the quitar for half a year.
"One thing I've learnt since the accident is how quickly things can change, and so I try to enjoy the present," he says. "I'm not constantly pushing forward and looking to the future the way I used to as a young man. Shangri-La is about getting as much out of the present as you possibly can and treasuring moments of happiness as they happen. For me, they are private moments with your loved ones. I've had lots of highlights through the years, but there's nothing that's sweeter than a child."
Knopfler wrote this (and other songs of the Shangri-La album) after a motorcycle accident that left him unable to play the quitar for half a year.
"One thing I've learnt since the accident is how quickly things can change, and so I try to enjoy the present," he says. "I'm not constantly pushing forward and looking to the future the way I used to as a young man. Shangri-La is about getting as much out of the present as you possibly can and treasuring moments of happiness as they happen. For me, they are private moments with your loved ones. I've had lots of highlights through the years, but there's nothing that's sweeter than a child."
(from http://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/active/mens-health/3309660/She-could-have-asked-how-I-was.html)