I do remember actually learning chords to Beatles songs. I thought they were great songwriters.

It's frustrating actually, the time involved in getting something released these days. My new CD has actually been finished for a year. It's only now that it's being released

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.

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.

I never advise anyone to sacrifice something else because of music, but then I don't see why they would have to anyway.

The Stones don't really need to do it for money, so they must get some kind of pleasure out of it. They're not like a group that's disbanded and gone away and made a comeback. They've always been there.

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