If you get into introspective blues or something where you're stretching out a bit, large audiences don't respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.

That song [You Got To Make It Through The World] came from a vibe I picked up from an old blues singer named Bo Carter. My lady was making a film as a thesis for U.C.L.A. and she wanted me to write a song to depict this character. The movie had something to do with bootlegging and stuff like that. I found this Bo Carter record and he was just saying something about making it to the woods or something like that.

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that's what I'm doing.

Go up to the mountain, go up to the glen, where silence will touch you, and heartbreak will mend.

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn't there before that.

If you never hear from me that just means I would rather not.

When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things.