It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

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

I always have a guitar with me. Actually, I've got several, I play every day. And I enjoy it. I'm never very far away from them. I swear I only ever get a couple days when I'm away from a guitar, and I never like it! There's always one close by, and I play every day. Or I'll be working on something in the studio and play around a bit. It's an extension of me, really.

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.

What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world.

It is not very practical in today’s world when you tour all over the place having a big band.

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