You can put out an album and it could be totally out of the window as far as what you want to do performance-wise.

If you're with a good band and everybody's from the old school, it's different. When you're in your element, you're in your element and things just come. You don't have to drag them out or force them out. They just happen.

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

If my heart could do my thinking, would my brain begin to feel?

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

I don't like to wonder about it-I just like to do it. That's what I mean about the image stuff and all that. There's far too much emphasis being placed on that kind of stuff... the whole emphasis on what does it mean? Everybody has their own particular vision.