The '40s were quite austere and super glamorous.

I saw an interview with Keith Richards. He said, 'How else could a kid in Dartford suddenly connect with and understand what Muddy Waters is singing?' There's a cultural difference, but there's just something in that music that subconsciously or internally you just understand; it just makes sense.

There are so many artists who get to my age that get comfortable and just stick in a groove, and I really don't want to do that.

I wanted to make a record that sounded like a continous piece

I never get too many problems. You can never please everyone anyway, obviously. And some people take the easy route and just play the greatest hits, and their audience is happy to hear that as well, and that's fine, but it wouldn't please me. But it doesn't trouble me.

I don't like to get pigeonholed. I don't like it when people think they have you sewn up.

If you're into a certain band, you're into the way they dress.