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

You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go.

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

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

All I know is that the six months when I recorded this music was the most productive time of my life, and I'll always remember it as the first time in my life that I ever felt like I was one with my dreams.

Rock music is electronic music, dependent entirely on electronic circuitry and amplification.

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.