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.

When it's not always raining there'll be days like this. When there's no one complaining there'll be days like this. When everything falls into place like the flick of a switch. Well my mama told me there'll be days like this.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

That song [You Got To Make It Through The World] came from a vibe I picked up from an old blues singer named Bo Carter. My lady was making a film as a thesis for U.C.L.A. and she wanted me to write a song to depict this character. The movie had something to do with bootlegging and stuff like that. I found this Bo Carter record and he was just saying something about making it to the woods or something like that.

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.