Music is the one thing that has been consistently there for me. It hasn’t let me down.

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

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.

My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.

My guitar style was developed during that 10-year period. That's me. That's the way I play, and I don't wish to play any other way. Our own individual identities are firmly stamped on this album.

You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.

When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.