If you live the life you love, you get the blessing from above.

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

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

I don't like to wonder about it-I just like to do it. That's what I mean about the image stuff and all that. There's far too much emphasis being placed on that kind of stuff... the whole emphasis on what does it mean? Everybody has their own particular vision.

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing.

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

That's the jazz that I like - the stuff that has a soothing effect.