I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.
A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.
The BBC, during its 24 hours on the air, plays a very wide range of stuff. And it's not commercial.
There's more power in the simpler things, I think.
I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.
During my early period I had custom-made overdrive stuff because I didn't like what they were making at the time.