Then it evolved into more of a ballad style singer/songwriter thing. And there was a conflict in trying to merge the two styles with the same band behind me. 'Cause the musicians that I would need to do ballad-oriented tunes would require musicians who were more into jazz.

No guru, no method, no teacher, just you and I and nature, and the father in the garden.

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

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

What I really like to do is just do the twist!

I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.

There's a million things that come through when you put songs together and it's kind of difficult to pinpoint exactly what triggers it on every occasion. It's just like somebody writing a screenplay or something like that.