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

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

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

The Eternal Kansas City song came from a dream sequence. It was actually kind of weird. I had this dream about a Kansas City type of thing while I was up at Stevie Winwood's place near Cheltenham, in Britain. I went into this small town and I was walking along and this dream thing was still in my head.

You have to remember that writing those sorta songs is not reality, it's more like trance, dream, y'know, like dreamwork. The mythical thing can enter the creating but there's the mythical place and the real place. And there's both...I get it between waking and sleeping. Or, when I'm doing something else. I don't sit down and think I'm gonna write about subject X or subject Y. I could be doing something and an impression comes in from outside and the song emerges out of that. It's never thought about or contrived.

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out.

Singing is my profession - there is no plan B.