The way I was singing the songs was jazz

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music.

Whether you're writing a book or a song or whatever, you've got to be involved in it. It's got to come from the heart I think...that's what it's all about.

I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.

[Jazz musicians] couldn't cut rock. I had to be more limited and specific about what I was doing.

I wrote a couple of songs that had gypsy references in them. The only reason it happened was because that's what was coming through and I liked the idea at that period of time. But that doesn't mean that it's a myth or that I'm a gypsy. It's gotten totally out of context.

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.