When you hear the melodic structures of what classical musicians put together and you compare it to that of a rock & roll record, there's a hell of a long way rock & roll has to go.

I know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.

I really wasn't needed... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.

There's such a wealth of arts and styles within the guitar... flamenco, jazz, rock, blues... you name it, it's there. In the early days my dream was to fuse all those styles. Now composing has become just as important.

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.

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

I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.