I just got into it like a lot of people through the rock 'n' roll bands in the late '60s that turned to country music, like The Byrds and Buffalo Springfield, but particularly through The Byrds because of Gram Parsons, Roger McGuinn and Chris Hillman (with their 1968 album Sweetheart of the Rodeo). They kind of introduced English kids to Merle Haggard and George Jones and the Louvins (brothers Charlie and Ira).

I feel like a juggler running out of hands.

[Commercial] radio is absolutely the enemy of music. They are my sworn and mortal enemy, and I will have nothing to do with them.

Cause somewhere in the Quizling Clinic, there's a shorthand typist taking seconds over minutes.

The battle with the bottle is nothing so novel.

I'm a working travelling musician, but just on a bigger scale...

I've been lucky to listen to lots of different types of music.