There are times when I've been feeling something and played a solo that I've never been able to repeat.

There is no way that you can ever really repeat something. I have this great belief that the magic of the moment can never be recaptured.

I'm a much better musician than astronomer. I think the world got the right choice.

There are times when I flick through magazines and think I'm in danger of becoming a prisoner of my own hair.

I had this idea... I wanted the sound to sing and have that thickness but yet still have an edge so that it could articulate. So my dad and I designed the guitar... the one that was made from an old fireplace.

I think a lot of people would be better off in America, where at least you would find some radio station somewhere that would play you.

My mum says I wanted to be a surgeon, but I don't remember that. I think from the time I knew what was happening, I wanted to be a guitar player.