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

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.

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.

That's the music that I play at home all the time, Joni Mitchell. Court and Spark I love because I'd always hoped that she'd work with a band. But the main thing with Joni is that she's able to look at something that's happened to her, draw back and crystallize the whole situation, then write about it. She brings tears to my eyes, what more can I say? It's bloody eerie. I can relate so much to what she says. "Now old friends are acting strange/They shake their heads/They say I've changed."

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

I can tell how far I ought to be going, I know how to get there, all I've got to do is keep playing.

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