To go see a band in a big venue is a difficult experience. I don't really like that too much. I'm not a guy who puts on iTunes and goes, "Oh, what's hot!" I don't need to.

I think rock records tend to be very expensive.

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.

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.

Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding.

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion.

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.