I do hear snippets on the radio. I do hear a little bit of me, sometimes great chunks of me. But I have to take that as a compliment; there's no way you can get sour grapes about that. But if somebody starts taking your whole new thing lock, stock, and barrel, and do their own version of it before you do it, that's not on.

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

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

Can't stand it. Too many amps, too much volume, it's just flat-out ear assault. Speedy guitars leave me not feeling detached but physically upset. When you think of all the subtleties that were built into the guitar and amps for you to discover they completely cover the whole lot with a rack of effects. The guitar doesn't need that.

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

The Strat covers the complete spectrum of human emotion .. the tremolo enables you to do anything - you can hit any note known to mankind

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.