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.

Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.

Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.

I'm not afraid of death. That is the greatest mystery of all. That'll be it, that one. But it is all a race against time.

I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up.

I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.