I don't have half the nerves there that I have anywhere else.

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.

My selective memory of what drinking was like told me that standing at the bar in a pub, on a summer's evening with a long, tall glass of lager and lime was heaven, and I chose not to remember the nights on which I had sat with a bottle of vodka, a gram of coke and a shotgun, contemplating suicide.

It's been very important throughout my career that I've met all the guys I've copied, because at each stage they've said, 'Don't play like me, play like you.'

Give me a guitar and I'll play; give me a stage and I'll perform; give me an auditorium and I'll fill it.

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

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