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

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.

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

I don't like playing standards. I like to do my own cutting edge work.

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

You come off of this screaming audience of many, many thousands of people. I used to find it very weird. You have two choices. Either you can stay and pump flesh with hundreds of people after the show, which really gets old, or you can come off stage, get into the car, and go straight out the back and away, back to the hotel.

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