I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

I'd put a lot of work into playing guitar and was thinking I was pretty damn good. But Hendrix came along and destroyed everyone.

Queen had its time and place, and at the moment I'm not concentrating on that era.

Amazing uke playing to be relished.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

I like a big neck – thick, flat and wide. I lacquered the fingerboard with Rustin's Plastic Coating. The tremolo is interesting in that the arm's made from an old bicycle saddle bag carrier, the knob at the end's off a knitting needle and the springs are valve springs from an old motorbike.

I was an incurable romantic then, same as I am now. I was always pining away after somebody