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.

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

Domesticity and all that isn't really for me.

If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.

I spend a lot of time near water.

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.

I love playing. If it was down to just that, it would be utopia.