Ten minutes in the music scene is the equal of one hundred years outside of it.

Entertainment isn't just based on the very structured syndrome of European popular music, and it's great that there are so many thousands of people who are of the same opinion.

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

I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity which I try and avoid.

It's a two-dimensional gig being a singer, and you can get lost in your own tedium and repetition.

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.

The way I see it, rock n' roll is folk music.