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.

It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

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.

When you perform live, it's a different trip - it's different energy. I just felt a conflict between both of the trips. I was trying to evaluate what it meant for me to be a singer/songwriter and what that whole thing all meant.

Men come, men go, all things remain in God.

My bag is approaching something and taking it to another place. Like words-you take a word and by the time you've finished with it, you milk it and you go through the emotion of what it is, what it means there and then.