Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.

The BBC, during its 24 hours on the air, plays a very wide range of stuff. And it's not commercial.

It was an experience being on a Beatles tour. They weren't very good. The singing was great, but the playing was a bit weak.

I don't tend to stand still for very long.

To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place.

I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.

I can't imagine ever going back to working with somebody else.