I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography.

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.

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

If you're 20 years old, you've grown up without buying albums.

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

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.