Jimi Hendrix isn't as good as me!

The expectation on me as a solo artist is very different to the audience's expectation of a Pink Floyd show.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

I think a lot of things do influence me, but the influence mechanism is as such that these things dive into your brain and bury themselves into your subconscious and you're never quite sure where and how they're going to emerge. I don't think I really take direct influence.

I am a lover of all sorts of different music. I love blues and every piece of music that I have listened to has become an influence.

Being a solo artist is what I do. It's what I've been doing for the last 20 years and a bit before then.

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