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.

I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.

It's interesting when something new comes along, a band of dwarfs playing electronic harps or something, but I'm not searching.

I don't go walking into things blind.

I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing.

From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.

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