I think a lot of modern day guitarists start off playing like Eddie van Halen, and they don't take the time to learn the basics.

I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do

Strangely enough, through all those school years I decided at 13 or 14 I was going to be a musician and so school was just something to get out of the way, a waste of time and not to bother with it.

I began to learn a lot of chords and rhythms. It was a bit boring at the time but came in very handy later on.

I started off playing the clarinet, after I was inspired by listening to my dad's Benny Goodman records.

They have decided to tour under the name of Ten Years After which I don't think is very cool. To be honest, they have had to do that as it's the only way they can get any work.

So if you see Ten Years After, it's not me anymore. I'm very happy with what I am doing now.

The chances of a reunion now are less likely. I was thinking of having a 40th anniversary of the band, but now they are really another band, so it's all a bit weird.

Anywhere you go in the world is what you make of it, not what you read in books.

It was by listening to Goodman's band, that I began to notice the guitarist Charlie Christian, who was one of the first musicians to play solos in a big band set-up.

I think I'll continue to work as a solo artist.

Never quit trying.

What door is opened into soul through our wounds.

A Parent's insecurity is a Child's nightmare

So the fox killed his brother, the wolf. (Mother Scaer)

Maybe the same essential download was also being delivered to other people—a massive, compassionate battalion of us—at the same time.

When you change showrunners, it's like getting divorced and getting remarried.

I've written songs about things that nobody else has ever written about.

I try to understand people who aren't as smart as me and not be hateful.

[Coaching] is a difficult job which everyone who owns a TV thinks they can do better at.

I never thought of myself as a really particularly great singer.