I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do

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

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

... I'm not conscious of the speed ... it's not my motive ... my motive is displaying a voice through the fingerboard ... it can get to the point where I don't have control over what I am playing ... I never end the gig until I can't sing anymore

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.