The '40s were quite austere and super glamorous.

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.

I suppose it's nice to have some surprise in life and to surprise yourself in life and see what else you can do.

I'm still a mod, I'll always be a mod, you can bury me a mod.

I get bored quickly. I kind of take my hat off to bands who have been around for a long time and still do the same thing, because it's hard to keep a band together for decades. But I couldn't do that. I couldn't play the same songs night after night or just trade on my past glories, because it wouldn't interest me as a person.

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.

So much is filtered by pop music today, because the music industry is driven by single, single, single, single, the next single, not the nurturing of artists and that kind of thing.