You don't want to believe everything you hear.

I don't live my life on the road. I'm getting on a bit and there's a lot of other things in my life. Our lovely children and their lives. It's more of a part-time business these days.

God created a system which gave us freewill.

If you are in a band or in any situation with other people there are obviously brilliant aspects to it, but there are also things that you start finding yourself tied to.

The idea of going around to somebody else's flat or house and sitting around in a comfy room and having a really good hi-fi system and listening to a whole album all the way through, then chatting for a few minutes, then maybe putting another album on . . . does that happen today?

I don't like to get too specific about lyrics. It places limitations on them, and spoils the listeners' interpretation.

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.