I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not.

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.

If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

You can't stop us on the road to freedom, you can't stop us cause our eyes can see.