I'm at my best when I'm exhausted and under pressure.

My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.

There's so many different styles and facets of the 360-degree musical sphere to listen to. From tribal to classical music, it's all there. If the bottom was to sag out of that, for God's sake, help us all.

Every record is a portrait of the band at that time.

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.

Crowley didn't have a very high opinion of women, and I don't think he was wrong.

Let's just say I'm like a ship passing through storms, resting in ports now and then until it's time to continue the journey. I once told a friend, `I'm just looking for an angel with a broken wing - one that couldn't fly away.'