When I smile at the audience, I'm not smiling because I was told that you're supposed to smile to the audience. I smile because they're all smiling at me, and it's a great feeling to see all these happy people out there, and it makes me happy to see them happy.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

You just never know when somebodys gonna die. It could happen at any moment so youve got to really treat everybody that way. Just really let everybody know how you feel about them.

I'm not interested in meeting people's expectations, and I'm not interested in pleasing people.

What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.

I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.

Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.