I really want to concentrate of the blues again and do it properly, which is something I feel I didn't do before.

I'm not as a studied, technically, as you might think. My technique has really evolved naturally over the years from watching other guitarists and trying to develop my own style.

I drove my Mum crazy, because I wouldn't go out and play football or join the Boy Scouts, I'd just sit at home and play the guitar.

I didn't actually start to play till I was about 10. My father came home from work a Friday and he said: 'Would you like to learn to play the guitar?' I said: 'Yeah! I'd love to try!' But I didn't think for one moment that I'd be able to do it.

Most of the bands that come out of L.A. now have singers that all sound like Daffy Duck.

Irish music makes you want to get up and jump around.

As time has gone on I've felt less and less need to play too many notes. That's something you do when you're younger, you play far too much and too fast.

I remember seeing The Who at the Top Hat.

I did play with Dr. Strangely Strange a couple of years ago - that difficult third album, 'Alternative Medicine,' 1997. It was great to see them all. They're very special people and they were very good to me in Dublin in the 1960s.

If you take a long time over a record, you end up making something different from what you intended.