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.

Live Aid did feel like one hour's rehearsal after several years, but to be part of Live Aid was wonderful. It reall was.

We were never a band that did 96 takes of the same thing. I had heard of groups that were into that kind of excess around that time. They'd work on the same track for three or four days and then work on it some more, but that's clearly not the way to record an album. If the track isn't happening and it creates some sort of psychological barrier, even after an hour or two, then you should stop and do something else. Go out: go to the pub, or a restaurant or something. Or play another song.

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.

When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.

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

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.