I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.

I hate cliché. And when you're a rock singer in 1966, or whatever it was, psychedelic blues, through to the '70s, which we know all about, and the '80s, which was a scramble to hang on in, and the '90s, which was a great time for experimentation... and I'm really still excited. The huge vast diagonals within the music that I've been involved with.

I was competing for attention in a four-piece band that was phenomenal, and I was trying to attack the blues from a kind of white English viewpoint as a singer.

You know sometimes words have two meanings.

To rock isn't necessarily to cavort.

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

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.