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

You can't just find yourself doing something and not happy doing it.

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 know where I'm going musically. I can see my pattern and I'm going much slower than I thought I'd be going.

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.

This week, I'm a gypsy. Maybe next week it'll be glitter rock.

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.