So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.

I went to see John Mayall at the Marquee, with Peter Green on guitar, and that was a particularly good gig.

I just play to the people I can see. So it's almost like you are playing to the first few rows of the crowd. You can see the faces of the first hundred people, but then it becomes a blur as the crowds disappear over the hill.

I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on.

There is a big age gap between my sisters Janice and Irma and myself so I didn't know them that well when I was younger although they have been very supportive in later life.

I just couldn't take school seriously: I had this guitar neck with four frets which I kept hidden under the desk. It had strings on it so I would practice my chord shapes under the desk and that's about all I did at school.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.