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Sherrie: This time I felt we needed an opener for the album. Something insistent and driving that would get under people's skin. Wildflowers was only meant to be a working title, I thought Duke would throw it out and replace it with something a bit harder but he thought it was a wonderful excuse to go dancing naked in the garden by moonlight to get in the right frame of mind! He calls this research, I think you oughta make up  your own mind. I was secretly pleased he kept the title because I rather liked the wild flower image in combination with the music. It's a song for and about free-spirited people.  What I also love about this song is that it seemed to come out of my head from nowhere, I've no idea what influenced it.

Duke: This song has a spiritual quality which draws heavily from Sherrie's insistent rhythm and high priestess vocalisation. The trick was to lend it some free spirit and earthy character without it becoming new age. Too hard, I think perfection evaded me on this one. But lots of people love the song, so what the f*** do I know? And there's some good pieces of the craft in there, for example the eight internal rhymes in one line in the second verse - that may be one for the record books. The whole thing is very positive and uplifting and we like that about it.