I don't know whether I'll reach 40. I don't know whether I'll reach 35. I can't be sure about that. I am bloody serious. I am very, very serious. I didn't think I'd make 30.

I can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.

I can listen to all different sorts of music. I don't really care about The Next Big Thing.

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 very fortunate because I love what I'm doing.

I'm obsessed - not just interested, obsessed - with folk music, street music, the parallels between a country's street music and its so-called classical and intellectual music, the way certain scales have travelled right across the globe. All this ethnological and musical interaction fascinates me. Have you heard any trance music? That's the thing.

I'm still searching for an angel with a broken wing. It's not very easy to find them these days.