Leave bands, go back to obscurity if I choose to, without a great sense of loss of security because it's all been based on the fact that I did it on my own or was doing, enjoying doing it on my own in the first place.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.

My original interests and intentions in guitar playing were primarily created on quality of tone, for instance, the way the instrument could be made to echo or simulate the human voice.

I tried when I was 13, when my grandparents gave me an acoustic guitar, and I tried for a year. It hurt so much to play. I mean, the fingertips hurt so much, I gave up.

I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex.

Music became a healer for me. And I learned to listen with all my being. I found that it could wipe away all fear and confusion.