I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.

Don't bait your breath. That's bad for your health.

Everyone goes to rotten schools when they're kids, don't they?

I think I could walk into any music shop anywhere and with a guitar off the rack, a couple of basic pedals and an amp I could sound just like me. There's no devices, customized or otherwise, that give me my sound.

I mean, I have moments of huge frustration because of my inability to express myself linguistically as clearly as I would like to.

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

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.