It's always good to play New York. The Apollo is a great gig. I loved that.

You do your runway show, and it's all over the Internet before I see anything on there.

Everyone gets frustrated and aggressive, and I'd sooner take my aggression out on a guitar than on a person.

When you look at so much of what we all love, there's either soul-based to it, or it's the blues. It's really the beginnings of any kind of music. It really is; it all starts there. Because after that, it's music of the moment.

There's always peripheral things that you like that you don't know, but starting with whatever his British influences are, are some of my favourite artists, and the American things are what I grew up on as well. In the end, for me, it's those foundations of the music business - those things that are a lot of the foundations of what music today is. You can hear a bit of all of those things that we talk about in almost all music today.

Sometimes you're ahead of the game and sometimes people don't get it and that's just one of those things you have to accept and carry on.

You can't live a lie. You have to follow your heart.