Everything that came later... the roots are all there in the first album.

The gut-strung guitar, the classical guitar, that is a whole different world on its own. When you think what the guitar can do and what every individual player does with a guitar, everyone has their own identity coming through the guitar.

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there's a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.

Sometimes, I must admit, I'd like to have a second guitarist onstage with me, but it wouldn't look right. I'd like to play for another 20 years, but I don't know... I just can't see it happening. I don't know why. It's a certain foreboding... a funny feeling... vultures.

I know where I'm going musically. I can see my pattern and I'm going much slower than I thought I'd be going.

I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.