I love to listen to the music that first inspired me - I get that fresh feeling back.

Sometimes when a record's done, I'm satisfied and I won't listen back to it for a while 'cause I'm usually pretty tired of the songs. Then I've got to learn them again to play them live, and sometimes it takes a while to realise it's a really good record.

A band isn't a band unless they're playing together. Otherwise it's just five guys that are living off their royalty checks.

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

When I plug in my guitar and play it really loud, loud enough to deafen most people, that's my shot of adrenaline, and there's nothing like it. That's what it's always been for me - to be the flame the tribe dances around.

The Beatles just changed everything right across the board. They just had that right combination of clean-cut good looks - a cute band - but under that they had a real rock n roll thing going on.

I've come to realize that you live on through recordings; they're like a musical diary, a window into somebody's soul.