If you don't have an album or you don't have any tune, you can't start.

After I saw Jimmy [Hendrix] play, I just went home and wondered what the f*** I was going to do with my life.

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.

I wanted to be in Rolling Stone number two with a tomorrow feel to it, like an experimental Rolling Stones with Jagger singing.

I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.

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

At the end of the day, there are a hell of a lot of notes being played out there and I defy the average middle-American or the average punter to differentiate between them.