You are who you are. It doesn't make any point to go out and buy the Top 40 albums to see what those acts are doing. There's no point in hearing what's going on. The only thing that's going on is what's been going forever. It's just that some people dig that bag and some people dig the other bag.

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.

If you're putting somebody down, you're doing it because you're just seeing a part of yourself that you don't like. That's all that is.

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.

Jackie Wilson said it was Reet-Petite, kind of love you got knock me off my feet.

This Hollywood ain't no good, I would rather be like Robin Hood.

My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.