A Lot Of People Can't

If You Wanted To Chart New Territories And Head Off Over The Horizon, You Had To Make Sure You Weren't Overly Influenced By What Others Were Doing ... So It Didn't Matter What Other Bands Were Doing ... We Did What We Were Doing.

There's Always Music That Moves Me. It Doesn't Necessarily Mean That It's Within The Parenthesis Of Rock Or Blues, Or Whatever. It's Usually Far More Reaching Than That. It Can Be In Many Different Genres.

I Suggested Back In 1980 To Do A Chronological Live Album, But There Wasn't That Much Enthusiasm For It.

I'm Obsessed - Not Just Interested, Obsessed - With Folk Music, Street Music, The Parallels Between A Country's Street Music And Its So-called Classical And Intellectual Music, The Way Certain Scales Have Travelled Right Across The Globe. All This Ethnological And Musical Interaction Fascinates Me. Have You Heard Any Trance Music? That's The Thing.

My Vocation Is More In Composition Really Than Anything Else-building Up Harmonies Using The Guitar, Orchestrating The Guitar Like An Army, A Guitar Army. ... I Always Felt If We Were Going In To Do An Album, There Should Already Be A Lot Of Structure Already Made Up So We Could Get On With That And See What Else Happened. ... I Always Believed In The Music We Did And That's Why It Was Uncompromising. ... I Don't Think The Critics Could Understand What We Were Doing.