These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

Hearing the blues changed my life.

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

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.

The way I was singing the songs was jazz

I think intellectualization is what's killing most people.

Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.