Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.

Playing a Fender is an art itself. They're always going out of tune.

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

Simplicity is the key.

Jeff Beck is my idol .. sometimes he finds notes that I just do not have on my guitar. Frank Zappa's another one .. I loved Frank Zappa ... I do think Van Halen reinvented the guitar ... he's an excellent musician, a shrewd guitarist and as a person he's wonderful.

I see someone like John Williams, the classical player, and the amount of discipline and the natural ability that man has is so frightening. That requires so much natural talent. And I think my talent came from just practising, and I feel a bit intimidated when I see players that good.

But you have to give your whole life to a cello. When I realized that, I went back to the guitar and just turned the volume up a bit louder.