“There was a folk club there and a girl called Jill Doyle taught me the guitar, who happened to be Davey Graham’s sister. Davey Graham is one of my heroes and always has been.”

I think I come under the singer/songwriter badge. I’ve always written songs right from the very beginning. Because of my style of playing people tend of me more of a guitar player than a singer sometimes.

I’d always had an interest in guitar from about seven years old. But I first actually had lessons when I was about fifteen in Scotland, in Edinburgh.

Fantastic guitar player. And he’s had a strong influence on me all the way through.

Im not one for showing off. But I guess my guitar-playing sticks out.

Liminality and adventure or continue to remain a religious ghetto for culturally co-opted, fearful, middle-class folk.

Rock ‘n roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm.

I played guitar. I’ve always considered myself an actor, but I wasn’t making a living as an actor. So I was in a couple of folk groups that managed to keep me in underwear and burritos.

White folks was in the caves while we [blacks] was building empires.

Country & western, rap, heavy metal, with historical folk rock off in some kind of cult.

There’s room in the world for one historical folk-rock singer to make a decent living, and I happen to be it.

Well, folks. That’s the greatest open in the history of television — bar none!

I came here with something in me that I inherited from my folks. So I’m going to do something called life and times.