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

I write songs. Then I record them. And later, maybe I perform them on stage. That’s what I do. That’s my job. Simple.

I just wanna get on with the show.

The way I was singing the songs was jazz.

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.

The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.

You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.

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

You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.

I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can’t see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.

I’m not a rock singer and I don’t want to be a rock singer. I’m not interested. It doesn’t seem to get across.

You’ve got to separate the singer and the songs.

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn’t the distance or the separation that there is now.

If you get into introspective blues or something where you’re stretching out a bit, large audiences don’t respond to this, so you have to give them what they want, basically.

I never bought the commercial thing, at any stage of the game.

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

Skiffle was blues featuring a washboard and acoustic instruments. It encompassed blues, with elements of folk, jazz, and, at times, American country-and-western music.

I am about the arrangements and the layers of depth in the music.

I don’t feel comfortable doing interviews. My profession is music, and writing songs. That’s what I do. I like to do it, but I hate to talk about it.

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

My ambition when I started out was to play two or three gigs a week. And that’s what I’m doing.

Skiffle was a name that was attached to what was, in essence, American folk music with a beat.

If you’re a pop singer, you don’t need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

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

For a long time, I couldn’t actually deal with playing concerts; it was a totally alien concept to me, ’cause I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.

I’d love to live in Ireland but I’d like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don’t understand – I lived there before I was famous.

I understood jazz, I understood how it worked. That’s what I apply to everything.

I think Paul McGuinness and U2 created the Irish music industry. It certainly wasn’t there before that.

Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

Large audiences did not suit my low-key approach.

If it’s what you do and you can do it, then you do it.

I just need somewhere to dump all my negativity.

The blues – there’s no black and white – it’s the truth.

I’ve never felt like I was born with a silver spoon at all, although I’ve felt like howling at the moon a lot of times!

You can’t stay the same. If you’re a musician and a singer, you have to change, that’s the way it works.

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

When the spirit moves me, I can do many wondrous things.

It was really strange for me when I started to play concerts in America where the audiences were all sitting down.

Did you ever hear about the rock and roll singer who got 3 or 4 Cadillacs, saying power to the people, dance to the music, wants you to pat him on the back.

See the man on the TV with a phony smile. Bring you up, bring you down, he can turn your head around.

I’m very lucky, I’m happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don’t have any regrets whatsoever.

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.

I don’t think nostalgia has to be negative.

I forgot that love existed, troubled in my mind. Heartache after heartache, worried all the time. I forgot that love existed Then I saw the light Everyone around me make everything alright.

I shall drive my chariot down your street and cry hey it’s me.

Someone once described me as a maverick and that’s what I would say. I’m a maverick not by choice but by conviction.

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

If my heart could do my thinking, and my head begin to feel, I would look upon the world anew, and know what’s truly real.

It’s all complete instinct and intuition, and that’s extremely difficult to teach.

In the gentle evening freeze, by the whispering shady trees I will find sanctuary in the Lord.

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