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.

Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

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

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.

You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.

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