I use the music almost as a compass in some kind of quasi-romantic way. I try and go to places that I'm intrigued by, and I take this music with me, using my name at the front.

I can find my way from 500 A.D. through to 1066 pretty well as an amateur historian.

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

There's no comparison between the most precious parts of one's personal life and success and wealth. If you lost someone near and dear to you, you can't relate it to any amount of fame, fortune and luxury. You just have to go on living.

I'm British - ostensibly British - but I don't know where I really belong, you know?

Possibly the whole creative whirlwind of any musician's life is based on garnering and developing and absorbing more and more experience.

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