I occasionally borrow pot from my kids. They do a little weed occasionally. 'Here, Dad' — or more likely, 'Dad, have you got any?'

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

Its called a playground, but its nearer to a battlefield. It can be brutal

I consider my job [being a musician] is to have a little idea and nurture it and put it in some form that everybody else can understand and then sort of pass it on. It's really a passing through. In other words, you receive and you transmit.

Love has sold more songs than you've had hot dinners.

To me, it's important to prove that this isn't just teenage kids' s**t and you should feel embarrassed when you're over forty and still doing it.

I mean, give me a guitar, give me a piano, give me a broom and string, I wouldn't get bored anywhere.