“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.”

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.

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.

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.

If you don’t know the blues there’s no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.

Currently I’m working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn’t be able to sound like.

I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines.

Yeah, Jody [Porter] left. He’s a great guitar player.

I’m not sure if he’ll end up as the permanent guitar player, but he’s the type of guy who can kind of step in and play anything.

The disenfranchised offspring, along with an entire ageless class of human discards, know only that they are doomed.

It may be a coincidence, but from the minute I took anti-depressants, I didn’t pick up a guitar or a pen for seven years.