I seem to attract and be attracted to very willful, fascinating people.

I don't really care what music's made on - I love guitars, but I'm fine with great electronic music.

Now chart music is a genre all of its own and it's slipped away from what I understand pop music as. It's pretty difficult to take; it clogs up the airwaves.

I can show bands how to produce themselves. In the same way, many bands think you can't make it without some fat cat in London or New York to manage you. Thats just crap. All you need is someone a bit older than you with a bit of business nous whom you trust.

I'm not interested in trying to have people who might like other kinds of music follow me. I don't want to please them.

Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and Ive been a guitar junkie ever since.

I suppose in some ways that's why my collaborations worked out, because I would go in the studio with such enthusiasm and it would never be a chore for me. I was never itching for the process to be done so we could get out live. It's a different matter for me now. Now I've noticed that I actually have one eye or one ear on how I'm going to do it on stage. And maybe that's because I'm the frontman in the group; I do believe that any good frontman should be impatient in the studio to get out.