Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.

I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is.

If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.

What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?

Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us.

How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

Songwriting is about getting the demon out of me. It's like being possessed.