But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

I just want to be treated like an average guy.

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.