I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because life is ambiguous.

You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

I was number 1 on the who's likely to die list for 10 years...I was really disappointed when I fell off that list.

I can sustain the impetus over the long tours we do is by feeding off the energy that we get back from an audience. That's my fuel. All i've got is this burning energy, especially when i've got a guitar in my hands.

I'm all for a quiet life. I just didn't get one.

One guy can ruin an instrument. Jimi Hendrix, bless his heart - how I wish he was still around - almost inadvertently ruined guitar. Because he was the only cat who could do it like that. Everybody else just screwed it up, and thought wailing away (on the guitar) is the answer. But it ain't; you've got to be a Jimi to do that, you've got to be one of the special cats.

One of the great things about songwrighting; it's not an intellectual experience