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.

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

It will make you feel good, and it will make you feel whole, when the spirit moves you and it fills you through and through.

Definitely Muddy Waters has been a prime influence for anybody who's ever done anything rock 'n' roll.

Sometimes you do know where the ideas are coming from and sometimes you don't. You might get a song coming through that you just don't know about.

I just can't stand jazz/rock. I think it's the worst thing that's come down the river yet.

I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.