The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

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.

Not for a million - years. I mean, I like the INXS boys, but I found the process very degrading, really. Reality television has eaten away at our standards of excellence. I don't like this whole culture, which has evolved, of TV being the king.

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

I tend to be not a person who does everything right all the time.

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.

My big hobby is photography. I collect stereo photographs from the 19th century.