The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.

On the first few albums the songs would grow into strange shapes.

My children hate me being such a big star. It's very hard for them to have a father who is always in the public eye.

I think music is about our internal life. It’s part of the way people touch each other. That’s very precious to me. And astronomy is, in a sense, the very opposite thing. Instead of looking inwards, you are looking out, to things beyond our grasp.

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

You got blood on your face, you big disgrace, waving your banner all over the place.

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