I feel the audience has a right to know if some of the money they're spending is going to a certain cause, and reassuring them the money is going to where it's supposed to be going.

I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

I'm really terrible with small children; they're small, noisy, irritating, damp and soggy.

As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

Cafe society is as old as the hills. Starbucks and its imitators are the coffee face of the new man in a hurry.

I suppose when I started playing guitar, it was the means to an end. I never thought of myself as a fully fledged guitar instrumentalist. And my early excursions on the electric guitar were curtailed when Eric Clapton came on the scene, and I decided I was never going to be in the same arena as a Clapton or a Peter Green.