I believe in singing - good songs badly or bad songs - it really doesn't matter. In a way that song is just the start of the story.

Who knows where the singers journey will take him or her. You would never have guessed Freddie Mercury was South African from his singing voice. Only when he spoke you could pick up the odd inflection of accent.

these kids who turn up at our clubs with their shit songs, rubbish guitar techniques, general cluelessness - we have so much to pass on to them, and we won't do it by turning our backs on them.

In a way I feel they are the true inheritors of the tradition (in so much as they have the raw ambition of self expression) rather than the kids who have grown up in folkie families and have accepted their parents vision. I see more of myself in them.