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

Learning to play with a big amplifier is like trying to control an elephant.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

I've always thought that I'm not really a guitar player, but I just practised so much that I developed into a kind of a bit of a musician, but I've often doubted my musical ear. If someone sings me a melody, I have to improvise on that melody, because I can't retain the information they've given me. That's why I still practise today, I suppose, because I still feel inadequate.

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

I was impressed by Hendrix. Not so much by his playing, as his attitude - he wasn't a great player, but everything else about him was brilliant.