There's no man alive who has any answers. We all know that. It's like the guru trip. All a guru can do is direct you to something that you probably already know about yourself, something you might want to followup on. Apply the same thing to music and records. You might get something from a particular record that hits a nerve and something inside you. But that's your vision of 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.

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.

I don't have any regrets about the album [Veedon Fleece]. But it's the same old story - an album is basically 35 or 40 minutes of what you do. It's 'part' of what you do.

Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.

There's a realization that you have to do something but you just can't do it all the time.

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.