We had no sleep or days off or anything like that and then, when the band became big, Hendrix became a star and looked down at us lot.

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

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

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!

On Ain't No Telling I came up with the bass solo.

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

I'd gone professional when I was about seventeen.