Every performance is different. That's the beauty of it.

If the spirit comes through in a Madame George type of song, that's what the spirit says. You have very little to do with it. You're like an instrument for what's coming through.

I thought of collaborating with other people which still might happen at this point. It might not. I was just trying to break the cycle because I had gotten to a point where I was definitely sure that I was on the wrong track after about 16 years.

The way I was singing the songs was jazz

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

If I ventured in the slipstream between the viaducts of your dreams, where immobile steel rims crack and the ditch in the back roads stop. Could you find me?

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