In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?

I think I deliberately sold out a couple of times. I picked the songs that I thought would do well in the marketplace, even though I didn't really love the song.

And I don't like having my picture taken. I'm almost like an old African in that sense. I think it steals a bit of the soul.

My driving philosophy about making music is that you can reduce it all down to one note if that note is played with the right kind of sincerity.

The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same - 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.