In print, people can do anything to you. Everything you do is picked apart. People love it; they're waiting for you to make a mistake.

I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good.

There's nothing I'm embarrassed about

I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway.

I never took sheet music seriously. I could do better myself just by listening to other people and using my own intuition.

What we were trying to do differently was this sort of layered sound.

The first nine albums there was never a Synthesiser, never any Orchestra. There was never any other player except us on the albums.