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'm not interested in turning anybody on to anybody that I'm turned on to... if people want to find things, they find them themselves.

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.

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

The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.

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.

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.