The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.

The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.

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

But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.

I don't feel I have to top myself at all.

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

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.