I think it's time to travel, start gathering some real right-in-there experiences with street musicians around the world.

Seeing people's faces, really getting off on them, makes me incredibly happy. Genuinely.

My vocation is more in composition really than anything else - building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.

The only term I won't accept is "genius."

I'm not a guitarist as far as a technician goes, I just pick it up and play it. Technique doesn't come into it.

I remember one particular occasion when I hadn't played a solo for, quite literally, a couple of months. And I was asked to play a solo on a rock & roll thing. I played it and felt that what I'd done was absolute crap. I was so disgusted with myself that I made my mind up that I had to get out of it. It was messing me right up.

I've never regretted anything I've ever done.