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.

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

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.

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

From the classical guitar right through to the furthest electrical experiments and everything in-between, it's amazing what the guitar can actually do. I mean, when one thinks about sounds.

Domesticity and all that isn't really for me.

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