We have to focus on his early work, and just one or two of his movies, and elements of his TV shows, to keep his memory pure. People now know that Elvis could play a mean rhythm guitar himself, and needed no other musicians to perform a great song. But Elvis was not just a rock star, he was an all-round entertainer.

Many were starting to use computerized synthesizers & drum machines to produce an entirely new style of music. It was being punted by the critics that the guitar was old hat; I was reminded of the way my father & his clarinets were written off in the late Fifties.

I'm only interested in rites of passage stories.

Give love, and keep blood between brothers

I respect those who follow religious routes only if they seem to me to be morally proper and in accord with the modern world.

Looking back, I don't know why we needed it to be quite so loud all the time.

Once she woke with untamed lover's face between her legs, now he's cooled and stifled and it's she who has to beg.