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

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.

Just because you play bass, doesn't mean you have no presence.

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.

No. I usually rest in my satin-lined coffin, actually. I'm not allowed out in daylight hours.

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. ... I always felt if we were going in to do an album, there should already be a lot of structure already made up so we could get on with that and see what else happened. ... I always believed in the music we did and that's why it was uncompromising. ... I don't think the critics could understand what we were doing.

I'm attracted by the unknown, but I take precautions.