It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?

I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.

I got into one Metallica record. That was about it. I never got into AC/DC or Black Sabbath or any of that. I was interested in the side of heavy metal that had interesting guitar ideas, but that was a very short-lived thing.

I always prefer other people's interpretations over my own, so I'm not very quick to make explicit what exactly a song or record is about.

In order to make a normal-sized record, a singer songwriter should have a couple dozen finished songs. Once they go through the process of production, the ones that scream out at you that they're finished are the ones that make the record.

I've worked with just as many talented women as I have talented men, and I feel fortunate enough to have that great balance.

It was endlessly amusing to me to try to imitate John Lennon and Paul McCartney's harmonies using the guitar.