But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.

I bet you can't play slide piano.

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else-building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army. ... I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened. ... I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising. ... I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.

No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.

The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.

I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.