Sometimes if I'm not playing well on stage, I'll purposely play even worse; I'll tear it apart, because I'm so disgusted with what I'm playing that I'll go the wrong route: instead of trying to make it better, I'll go the other way and really make myself sound bad. Which is a kind of a strange outlook I suppose, really.

When I was 20, I didn't give a damn about song construction. I just wanted to make as much noise and play as fast and as loud as possible.

Hendrix inspired me, but I was still more into Wes Montgomery. I was also into the Allman Brothers around the time of those albums.

I can do the old hand vibrato just fine, but I like attacking the strings.

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

Jimi... He was the gov'nor and that's it. He was brilliant, wasn't he?

Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated.