I feel fortunate that I was able to step away from it when I wasn't interested.

As a guitar player, you can gravitate to the blues because you can play it easily. It's not a style that's difficult to pick up. It's purely emotive and dead easy to get a start with.

My songwriting and my style became more complex as I listened, learned, borrowed and stole and put my music together.

I was a guitar player first off.

A lot of what I have always done is do other singers.

I felt that, in retrospect, there was a time in the late Seventies, after I had a string of hits and successes, as a performer and a recording artist, that I wasn't saying anything.

There is not a lot that keeps me glued to the radio as I used to be.