"He was Scottish and very stiff. My parents were not musical and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud, it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn’t have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do. And more than that, I saw how he spent his life: he was a district manager for a utility and really got very little for it, and I made a vow that I was never going to work for anybody. I was going to find a way to make a living with a guitar."