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.

Jazz goes into folk music, into rock music. Jazz is in practically everything except classical music where they're reading the same music all the time, the same way, the same tempo every night.

I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo. I mean, that's what it is. I'd much rather hear that than the jazz/rock thing because it's blowing an aspect of jazz that I really like...the level where you can snap your fingers to it and you can groove to it. You can do anything to it.

I thought of collaborating with other people which still might happen at this point. It might not. I was just trying to break the cycle because I had gotten to a point where I was definitely sure that I was on the wrong track after about 16 years.

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it's me.

The theory is that you don't play a song the same way twice because it's jazz. That's where I'm coming from.