You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.

I am not a technophobe and I am using the latest technology today, some 30-odd years later, and I am really enjoying what some of the new technologies can offer. But at the same time I am always aware that one can get bogged down in that technology and that it can become more than just a method. That's something that you have to be slightly careful of.

I don't, consciously anyways, sort of listen to things with the idea of getting something from them that I can use.

To be honest, I don't listen to groups, really. Hardly ever. I know I'm in one, but I don't like them very much.

Where would rock and roll be without feedback?

You don't want to believe everything you hear.

I went to a school in Cambridge, which I thought was completely rotten. Yes, hated it. Now they want me to go back there and support this, that, and the other and I haven't managed to pluck up the courage to even face it yet.