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.

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

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

I think rock records tend to be very expensive.

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.

Actually, I think my hands are in the best shape they've ever been in terms of what I can do.

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