My arrest was on every bloody TV set. The other prisoners all knew who I was and asked me to sing.

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

Where I come from, you don't really talk about how much you're earning. Those things are private. My dad never told my mum how much he was earning. I'm certainly not going to tell the world. I'm doing well.

When you said you were a terrible singer, I thought you were being humble. But you weren't.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

I didn't earn that much in record royalties. You've only got to look at my sales in 1980 to figure that one out.

I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.