The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up.

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

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

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.

The idea of a hypnotic riff as the prime mover of a piece of music has been around for a long time, whether you're talking about the Delta blues or music from Middle Eastern and African cultures.

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

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.