I'm a very emotional person. If I've got something on my mind, that would stop me from giving my best.

... 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 try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't do that and just let the genuine sound come through, there's a whole magic there.

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.

Things turn out better by accident sometimes. But you can't organize accidents.

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

When Jazz broke through in England, I remember sneaking to listen on the radio much to my parent's disapproval.