Heavy Connection is just basically about psychic stuff...it's kind of about connections that you're not normally making. It's like a fate number where you're making psychic connections that you're not really aware of but they're there.

I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.

The fog of illusion, the fog of confusion is hanging all over the world.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

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

Britain is not the same anymore of course. It's never the same.

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.