I have these headphones, which pretty much exclude everything else so that you can really completely control the sound that you're hearing. I don't use them very much, I have to say. I very rarely listen on headphones.

I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.

Songs that don't depend on composition depend instead on performance - so the fire has to be there in the playing.

I have a definite talent for convincing people to try something new. I am a good salesman. When I'm on form, I can sell anything.

Of all the things you can now do, which do you choose to do?

It's amazing how quickly people get used to bad quality.

The Marshall guitar amplifier doesn't just get louder when you turn it up. It distorts the sound to produce a whole range of new harmonics, effectively turning a plucked string instrument into a bowed one. A responsible designer might try to overcome this limitation - probably the engineers at Marshall tried, too. But that sound became the sound of, among others, Jimi Hendrix. That sound is called electric guitar.