I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo. I mean, that's what it is. I'd much rather hear that than the jazz/rock thing because it's blowing an aspect of jazz that I really like...the level where you can snap your fingers to it and you can groove to it. You can do anything to it.

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice.

I wanted to find out why I wasn't getting off on what I was doing and try and make some sense out of the evolution of it.

There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

A lot of things come together to make up a song. It's just images.

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

There's no man alive who has any answers. We all know that. It's like the guru trip. All a guru can do is direct you to something that you probably already know about yourself, something you might want to followup on. Apply the same thing to music and records. You might get something from a particular record that hits a nerve and something inside you. But that's your vision of it.