I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have these things where you are. If you have them, what does the real world matter anyway?

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

Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.

I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world

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.

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

I combine aspects of many styles of music and create my own musical forms by way of electronic instruments.