The ability to make music is a gift that you're born with; it's not something you can learn.

I have short hands. That's why I have to bend up to notes; I can't always reach the frets.

I was very keen on people like Elvis, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and Gene Vincent.

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

During my early period I had custom-made overdrive stuff because I didn't like what they were making at the time.

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 got a guitar when I was about 14, for a Christmas present, and went from there.