Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.

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'm not interested in forcing my music on people, and that's what the whole music industry nowadays is based on is forcing stations to play it, forcing people to listen to it.

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