I'm pretty optimistic about the future of rock... it will be back to composition as in classical music or jazz.

You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.

If you wanted to chart new territories and head off over the horizon, you had to make sure you weren't overly influenced by what others were doing ... so it didn't matter what other bands were doing ... we did what we were doing.

There's a certain standard in classical music that allows the application of the term "genius," but you're treading on thin ice if you start applying it to rock & rollers.

I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened.

You can't buy time. Everything, for me, seems to be a race against time. Especially musically.

I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.