I cherish my privacy, and woe betide anyone who tries to interfere with that.

... by far the most astonishing guitar player ever has got to be Django Reinhardt ... Django was quite superhuman, There's nothing normal about him as a person or a player.

I don’t care about the rules. In fact, if I don’t break the rules at least ten times in every song, then I’m not doing my job properly. Emotion is much more important than making mistakes, so be prepared to look like a chump. If you become too guarded and too processed, the music loses its spontaneity and gut feeling

If you can make it sound exciting with a joke drum machine, you know you've got something.

I like an element of chaos in music. That feeling is the best thing ever, as long as you don't have too much of it.

I don't care about the rules, if I don't break the rules at least 10x every song then I'm not doing my job.

Some are skeptical. My mom thought the guitar was going to fizzle out in two weeks, that it was just a fad-and that was in 1958.