'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'.

Meanings of all songs come after they are recorded. Someone else has to interpret them

I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.

Songwriting is like ... being possessed. You try to go to sleep but the song won't let you.

Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange.

There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic.