The events between 1968 and 1980 were the kind of cornerstone for everything I've been able to do, they gave me the springboard.

There's a similarity between European and North African folk musics.

I've still got a twinkle in me.

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong.

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet.