Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.

It's all right leaping about the stage when you're 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing

There are things that I am very proud of and there are things that you are not so proud of. But I think that applies to any musician.

My first record I owned was by Les Paul.

Because of the fashion, the young people don't have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can't earn any money doing it.

I was listening to music long before rock 'n roll.

I'm always shy in front of an audience, so I'm always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don't like the front, the adulation.