#me

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. ↗

In order to win you must be prepared to lose sometime. And leave one or two cards showing. ↗

I learnt from Armstrong on the early recordings that you never sang a song the same way twice. ↗

You take stuff from different places, and sometimes you stick a line in because it rhymes, not because it makes sense. ↗

A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception. ↗

As a developing musician, skiffle became a platform for me to start playing music. ↗

Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag. ↗

I always record far more than I can use. There's probably twice as much recorded as comes out. ↗

I never paid attention to what was contemporary or what was commercial, it didn't mean anything to me. ↗

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. ↗