You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

Some thoughts went through my head about recording some stuff that had influenced me earlier in my career like blues and early rock. But it didn't seem to really make sense at that point - it might have been taken the wrong way. A lot of people already had been into that trip.

I can see more naturalness in basic blues, basic R & B, basic rock 'n' roll.

[You Got To Make It Through The World] it's kind of a survival song. Survival is what's happening and it's basically a song about that.

We might think that we're really intellectual and we're going to check out the library to research the meaning every time somebody puts out a new record. It's still primitive stuff. It's the same now as it was at the beginning. It's no different now. Rock 'n' roll is spirit music-it's just coming through people.

Spiritual hunger and spiritual thirst But you got to change it On the inside first To be satisfied