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

It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting.

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

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

To go see a band in a big venue is a difficult experience. I don't really like that too much. I'm not a guy who puts on iTunes and goes, "Oh, what's hot!" I don't need to.

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.

I was totally into jazz in my teens.