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.

The idea [of A Period of Transition album] was to get a break from everything for a while because I've been doing it for so long. I started doing it when I was 12.

I just wanted to have a look at my whole musical career, get right back to when I started and why I started doing it in the first place.

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

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.

If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.

I never, ever said that I was a nice guy.