I'm obsessed - not just interested, obsessed - with folk music, street music, the parallels between a country's street music and its so-called classical and intellectual music, the way certain scales have travelled right across the globe. All this ethnological and musical interaction fascinates me. Have you heard any trance music? That's the thing.

I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

Actually, I'm getting one made up with eight necks and I'm going to get a wheelwright to make a big rim around it and then I can do cartwheels off the stage.

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

When I went over to the States to promote Outrider, everyone was telling me I was a blues guitarist. I'm not a bloody blues guitarist. I'm a guitarist.

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.