To change things I think you just have to as sincere to your own vision as you can.

You may not change things, but you will meet people and influence them and maybe if your talent and charisma isn't strong enough to make the difference - perhaps they will, or maybe their children will. the changes you wrought, may not be the ones you expected.

That, I think is the folk process. Completely random, monstrously unfair, totally unaccountable and unfathomable.

As I reach the end of my career as a writer and artist, I can see I haven't pulled up any trees. The only thing I have done of any account is to pass on my guitar style in the few years when I was teaching it - some people are a damn sight better at it than I was! In retrospect, I can see I was a much better teacher than I was a performer.

At the time I never reckoned myself as a teacher - I couldn't read music worth a damn - certainly not a sight reader. I guess it was the mad gleam of dedication in my eyes that convinced my students they'd better practice!