Nothing In My Way - "Nothing In My Way came out of listening to a lot of the
poppier end of hiphop on the radio, just kinda driving around (I was driving up
and down to my parents house a lot as that was the only place I could go to
play the piano) and I think particularly the groove of "Lose Yourself" by
Eminem got stuck in my head. I think it's still one of the greatest pop songs
of my lifetime, it's such a fantastic track. And I guess I like the idea of
trying to do something similar. I guess it was never gonna sound like Eminem,
but the groove of it was basically lifted from that, and the song just came
from jamming around on a piano. So I guess as a result of all that, I guess
it's a much funkier and kinda 'blacker' song than most Keane songs, and that
was something that we really wanted to get into the record generally. We were
listening to a lot of classic motown as well, much more driving rhythms and you
can hear that in a lot of the songs. So I'm really proud to have a few songs
that people can at least nod their heads to!

Lyrically Nothing In My Way is I guess about really being in denial - I hate it
when people refuse to acknowledge their own feelings and reactions to
something, because they see it as being a weakness to say that they're scared,
or upset about something, or whatever. The song's actually written about some
people I know who are married, and their marriage was essentially just bringing
a lot of misery to both of them, but for some reason they just refused to
acknowledge it. I hate the idea of people being so much in denial that they're
prepared to almost let their lives fall apart rather than acknowledge what's
going on." - Tim - Podcast 1 (15th May 2006)