Everybody was starting to grow long hair and wear pink suits and purple glasses and stuff and then, I suppose, some people thought we were crazy, but we weren't really crazy because we're all still here!

I took up violin because my best mate had taken it up, so I did likewise.

But people are now realising why I was playing bass with Hendrix.

My lady, Deborah McNaughton is doing a documentary on me.

I suppose the old natural stuff would be ok, the old mushroom, but I wouldn't advise anyone to do it.

I wouldn't know how I would have coped with The Beatles' sort of fame.

At the age of nine, playing the violin at school, and then onto the mandolin.