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.

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

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.

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

I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage.

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp.

Coming from the era of vinyl you could argue that everything went wrong in the music business the moment we went digital. The day the first CD came out, it all went downhill in the music industry. Digital destroyed everything.