I've got love in my life, as well as trouble and strife.

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

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.

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

You can call it nostalgia, I don't mind Standing on that windswept hillside Listening to the church bells chime Listen to the church bells chime In that magic time.

The thing about albums is just coming up with new material. I just got tired of that syndrome of putting out an album and then some reviewer claims that this song or that song has something to do with x y or z.

There's novel reading, and then there's the other kind of reading. Take somebody like Carl Jung, the psychiatrist - now there's somebody worth getting into. With novels, I'm kind of fly by night. It isn't something I can be really consistent with.