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.

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'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

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

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

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

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