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

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

Usually, the best thing is when the band goes to the bar and gets the corner table, we sit there like kings, and then they bring people to us. It's just rock 'n' roll. It's stupid, really.

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.

Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them.

I actually think I play better now than Ive ever played.

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.