I've got the big name, but I've always wanted to be in a band, one of a band.

Soon, I'm going to need help crossing the street.

I've had many years to consider what I would like to see about a particular place. I don't waste any time and I enjoy it.

What I lack in style and craft, I can make up for in joy and enthusiasm. I like to be around people who are at ease so I like to think the 25-year-old would find me quite an easy-going late-middle-aged hippie.

How much do people really want to learn? I mean, some people get into a groove and they stay with it indefinitely. And what starts off as a great moment of explosive passion can end up as cabaret 25, 30 years later. It just depends on whether you go and find the right habitat to extend yourself.

And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition.

There are always generic terms like 'Americana', but there are no boundaries as to where it can go.