I really don't like showing people how I play things; it's a little embarrassing because it always looks so simple to me.

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

I remember one particular occasion when I hadn't played a solo for, quite literally, a couple of months. And I was asked to play a solo on a rock & roll thing. I played it and felt that what I'd done was absolute crap. I was so disgusted with myself that I made my mind up that I had to get out of it. It was messing me right up.

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.

If you wanted to chart new territories and head off over the horizon, you had to make sure you weren't overly influenced by what others were doing ... so it didn't matter what other bands were doing ... we did what we were doing.

I always thought the good thing about the guitar was that they didn't teach it in school.

There's too many good musicians around for the music around for the business to be sagging.