I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.

Between now and then and I just felt it was ready and it was a long enough period gone by. I obviously didn't want to hurt anybody, you know. It was done out of a genuine memorial or tribute whatever you want to call it.

I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.

So I do think of myself in that way as hopefully someone who will go on as long as there's an audience and as long as I can without striving to have huge hit records because I think in a way if I'd had hit singles or something like that years ago it would have been difficult for me to carry on the way I have.

I'm not going with some big time producer who takes over completely and I'm just a sideman. I wouldn't fancy that really.

Well all the big companies are really panicked by the internet thing and all that, and sales went down, although sales have gone up again in this country a bit and also the big companies, because they're so big, they need big sales really so they're not really interested.