I'm obsessed - not just interested, obsessed - with folk music, street music, the parallels between a country's street music and its so-called classical and intellectual music, the way certain scales have travelled right across the globe. All this ethnological and musical interaction fascinates me. Have you heard any trance music? That's the thing.

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.

So many people are frightened to take a chance in life and there's so many chances you have to take.

I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me.

I suggested back in 1980 to do a chronological live album, but there wasn't that much enthusiasm for it.

I had another idea of getting a traveling medicine wagon with a dropdown side and traveling around England. That might sound crazy to you, but over there it's so rural you can do it. Just drop down the side and play through big battery amps and mixers and it can all be as temporary or as permanent as I want it to be.