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 would say a lot of the emotion in what I do is a sort of a thankfulness for those energies being around, because there's been points in my life when they weren't around, and it's a real sort of miserable existence.

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

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 want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.

The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

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