It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.

The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

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.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

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

I love the feeling of letting fly, of pushing as far as I could go with my voice. The only way you can really graduate how you do it is by doing it regularly to people who don't have to be super impressed. You can do it in the studio all day long but you don't get the flashback that you get onstage.

I come from a very small island which is packed with people. I mean, jam-packed with people. I've lived a life which has been pretty much full up with ambition, ideas, stimulus, creativity, some negativity, which I try to avoid. Austin is a great sort of stepping-off point, if you like. I'm from a temperate climate.