The late sixties and early seventies were kind of a breeding ground for exciting new sounds because easy listening and folk were kind of taking over the airwaves. I think it was a natural next step to take that blissful, easy-going sound and strangle the life out of it.

It's gonna sound like them if it is them. It sounds like them now, that's what I think. It doesn't, when you say it sounds like the Beatles, people may expect it sound like y'know 65 or 68 or 9 or Abbey Road. But the whole technical thing that has ta

I think I have kind of a natural magnetism.

If you'll excuse a brief history lesson: most people didn't experience 'the sixties' until the seventies. Which meant, logically, that most people in the sixties were still experiencing the fifties--or, in my case, bits of both decades side by side. Which made things rather confusing.

All I can think of is, what's next? ... That's what's so exciting - how do we top this?

I think, over the years, I've kind of evolved.