I am always a beginner. I only try to include different parts of life; the pastoral, the tragic, et cetera.

People have always found me challenging - I don't know why, when I am only being myself. I don't understand why they find me so annoying but they do. It is pity, but that is how it is.

I am not a modern man, I am just a wee old fashioned one.

To explore different parts of yourself and different emotional lives... not to hide from who you are but to actually explore who you are.

But you have to understand that I consider myself a very modest artist, or whatever, and not of importance really at all - it is quite embarrassing to me to be asked my opinion about things. I am only a wee Scottish poet on the outside of everything.

I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.