Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.

It's nice to be recognized, but it's not great to have it too conspicuously recognized, if you see what I mean. Gold records on the wall, or titles after your name, it's just not something... I don't feel that great about it.

As a songwriter, you tend to develop your own style, your own technique, based around what it is you're trying to write and perform, in terms of your own music. So a way of evolving a guitar style as a songwriter is much easier, I think, than developing a true style of your own just from listening to music or playing other people's music.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

All the time I was playing the flute, the lines, the solos, the riffs, the construction, were based on my guitar skills. I did not play the flute to exploit its natural faculties, but I used it as a surrogate guitar.