When we were touring heavily in America, we based ourselves there for a couple of years, but now we're all back here and it seems to be the place.

I don't surf the net in general. I have someone do it for me instead, because I find it sluggish.

I tend not to write on guitar very often. I tend to start off with keyboards.

I was an incurable romantic then, same as I am now. I was always pining away after somebody

We've done an arrangement with an orchestra, but I think the best stuff tends to come when it's just the four of us.

Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect.

The guitar was my weapon, my shield to hide behind.