If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.

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

I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster.

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

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating.