I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

Lyricists play with words.

What I have to say is all in the music. If I want to say anything, I write a song.

I don't know anything about the Appalachian mountains or cowboys and Indians or anything. I just made it up.

I have not practiced how to be a singer without an instrument.

I got my first guitar when I was 15, and I just used to fool about with it, more or less, as time went by, though, I got more interested.

Bach was so mathematical and I liked this idea that you could have one instrument going, 'One, two, three, four', and then you have another instrument going, [double time] 'One, two, three four', and another instrument going, [doubled again] 'One, two, three, four, one, two, three, four', so you could add twos and fours and eighths, and that happens a lot in Bach.