I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.

When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.

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

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.

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 don't care what critics and other people think.