There's always music that moves me. It doesn't necessarily mean that it's within the parenthesis of rock or blues, or whatever. It's usually far more reaching than that. It can be in many different genres.

I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.

There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars or the whole band. People are used to close-miking amps, but I'd have a mic out around the back, as well, and then balance the two. Also, you shouldn't have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound right. You should be able to get the right tones simply with the science of microphone placement.

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

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

Domesticity and all that isn't really for me.