Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.

For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.

We are all very lucky to live in a world where there is this much music.

Something like trying to protect yourself all the time, things like trying to outwit fate. Those things can be the worst thing you can do for yourself.

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

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

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.