I understand the rock star deal having been one and still going out strapping my guitar on and performing. Now, I probably do 30 or 40 dates a year and I get to relive how I felt at 19 when I played in some really bad bands.

All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

I don't play nostalgia acts. I don't play nostalgia shows.

I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

If you put the talent of all my brothers together, they wouldn't add up to the talent that was in my father.

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.