The first real thing I heard was Three O'Clock Blues by B.B. King. That's where it all began for me.

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 have a favorite album; I tend to have favorite tracks. There are flaws in every album that spoil it for me.

It gives me a good feeling to know that people out there really care.

I didn't sit down and work out other people's material; I've never believed in that.

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.