Basically I got an insight into what it really was through Alcoholics Anonymous. One day the switchboard lit up and I saw where it was all going. I saw what alcohol could do to people and I saw that it wasn't a good thing anymore. Plus I wasn't a teenager anymore myself.

You've got to separate the singer and the songs.

Sartre said that hell is other people, I believe that most of them are

I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.

Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music.

You can't stay the same. If you're a musician and a singer, you have to change, that's the way it works.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.