My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient.

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

Ive also just come off a year and a half playing acoustic shows which is fantastic for the hands, and changes your head a little bit.

If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger.

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

There is always the working out of things, and you have to have sort of a gut response to it. And an intellectual response. And an aesthetic response. All that comes from having done this for a long time. Instead of saying, "That's a really good rock track, and that will do," I'm looking for something that is more original and fresh. There are a lot of elements to get into it: a level or sophistication, passion and excitement.

I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.