I certainly want to get back to the US to play. It's such a big country. I've always liked playing there, and enjoyed living there. I lived in New York, LA, and Florida.

I've never stopped learning.

The most important thing is to follow your instinct and get involved with some friends who have similar taste and aspirations and like music as much as you do.

Maybe if I go far enough back into my ancestry, I have African roots or something. I've got no idea

The Blues scene now is international. In the '50s it was purely something that you would hear in black clubs, played by black musicians, especially in America. But from the '60s onwards it changed

What I've always lacked is a really strong band to back me up.

I've written lots of songs on the piano. My mother had a piano and it was the first instrument I played