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

I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.

[Rock 'n' roll] music started out with some cat banging a log with a couple of pieces of stick. He sent a message across a river and although the cat on the other side receiving the message didn't know the exact words, he did understand basically something about what was being communicated.

Jazz comes from a tradition where it swings. Swing was the main ingredient of jazz. And once it loses the swing...well, that's it.

At the end of the day, we should give thanks and pray, to the one, to the one.

If you want to put your rock 'n' roll into mythology, [A Period of Transition] is from the Daddy Cool school.

Any artist is an instrument-and that's exactly why you can't do it all the time. You can only do it when it's happening, when it's coming through. No matter how much you may want to do it, if it's not happening then it's simply not happening.