I went back to Belfast and started a club, the Maritime. No one had thought about doing a blues club, so I was the first.

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Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag.

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I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.

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If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

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Even today, skiffle is a defining part of my music. If I get the opportunity to just have a jam, skiffle is what I love to play.

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A famous person to themselves, they don't get up in the morning and think, I'm famous. I'm not famous to me. Famous is a perception.

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When I started studying tenor saxophone as a kid in Belfast, I did so with a guy named George Cassidy, who was also a big inspiration.

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When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

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There's always got to be a struggle. What else is there? That's what life is made of. I don't know anything else. If there is, tell me about it.

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These days politics, religion, media seem to get all mixed up. Television became the new religion a long time back and the media has taken over.

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