I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising.

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

I think it was that we were really seasoned musicians. We had serious roots that spanned different cultures, obviously the blues.

I may not believe in myself, but I believe in what I'm doing.

But to put out a greatest hits on one CD was totally impossible, I just couldn't do it. The best compromise was to put out two CDs - Early Days - which is what it is - and Latter Days.

Almost the moment he died, they put him in Playboy as one of the greatest drummers, which he was - there's no doubt about it. There's never been anybody since. He's one of the greatest drummers that ever lived.