Also the press/media does have the habit of quoting "parts" of a sentence to make it sound a bit more interesting.
He could have said "relatively easy", unless I could hear the complete recording it doesn't mean much to me.
We all know people in the public eye (like pop stars) will say anything just for the laugh so they can read it in the "Daily Whatever" the next day.
I remember a certain government official saying that he drank 10 pints a night just to make him more favourable with the "working class"
