It's the same thing as a primitive of Africans, Indians, nomads or whatever - when they start getting up and doing their ritual and doing the dance, it's just what's coming through. It's the spirit. Rock 'n' roll is still primitive.

Way across the country where the hillside mountains glide, the dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child.

I didn't know what some of the stuff on Astral Weeks was about until years later.

I just like any music to swing, no matter what it is.

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.

These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

What excited me when I first came into it was the performing aspect and doing blues-oriented material, rock/blues oriented stuff, basic stuff, basic what they call rock 'n' roll.