It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.

You don't want to be so far off the planet that you come out with something that doesn't make sense to anybody.

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.

You're on the stage and you've got all those people yelling at you, so you better be right in the moment, reacting to that. It's completely live and organic. Even 20 years later, it's the same thing. You may be even better on your instrument. Hopefully, you are.

Of course the playing is important but writing and the establishing of what you are going for is prime too.

Ive also just come off a year and a half playing acoustic shows which is fantastic for the hands, and changes your head a little bit.