There's a very old recording maxim that goes, 'Distance makes depth.' I've used that a hell of a lot-whether it's tracking guitars or the whole band. People are used to close-miking amps, but I'd have a mic out around the back, as well, and then balance the two. Also, you shouldn't have to use EQ in the studio if the instruments sound right. You should be able to get the right tones simply with the science of microphone placement.

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

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

There's music that can affect people in their lives, and they will always relate to the point that they heard it and experienced it, either if you're playing it or you're receptive, as an audience.

Music can always be a life-changing experience, for musicians and fans, or at least life-affecting, but it depends on to what degree.

But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.

If you're working at the factory and you're cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You'll just make yourself ill.