My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.

I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.

I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.

I think that there are quite a few acts which have stayed with the basic feelings and that's good. And I see something of a swing back to that. For example there are quite a few people copying my early stuff now. Like it's become a reference point or something.

Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

I was all caught up with identifying with certain things. They just weren't very stimulating things.

I'm a dweller of the threshold and I'm waiting at the door, and I'm standing in the darkness, I don't want to wait no more.