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

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

Sometimes, literally within a few minutes, you'd be off this amazing roaring scene and back at your hotel room, staring at the patten of the wallpaper. It's very surreal. You're back in your room, and it's dead quiet and really weird.

I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.

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

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.

I was totally into jazz in my teens.