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

What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe.

I was totally into jazz in my teens.

For me, a great show is when there's a great rapport with the band and the audience, and we're all really into it. The first trick is to bring the audience into the band, break the ice, have a life, and be one, so you can enjoy the next hour and a half together.

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

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.

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