There are very few people I can call real, close friends. They're very, very precious to me.

The blues appealed to me, but so did rock. The early rockabilly guitarists like Cliff Gallup and Scotty Moore were just as important to me as the blues guitarists.

Crowley didn't have a very high opinion of women, and I don't think he was wrong.

Domesticity and all that isn't really for me.

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.

You know what you can gain when you sit down with the Moroccans. As a person and as a musician. That's how you grow.

Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you're playing an instrument that is really hard.