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.

After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent.

Love is a promise; love is a souvenir.

There are places I'll remember All my life though some have changed Some forever not for better Some have gone and some remain All these places have their moments With lovers and friends I still can recall Some are dead and some are living In my life I've loved them all

Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them

Without a job all there is to life is boredom and insecurity.

Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it.