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

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 can never remember what I do even in the studio.

I don't play by those rules; I'm my own worst enemy sometimes. There's something in me that has to go against the grain. You know, I don't like to be a dead fish, swimming with all the other dead fish, I like to go upstream sometimes, against the flow.

Most guitar players get a name because the band that they're in has become popular. That doesn't mean that they're particularly good, whereas conversely, you've got people like Albert Lee, an incredible player, one of my favourites who's not in a famous band, so he doesn't get into the popularity polls. I have to laugh at some of the people that do get into the popularity polls - some of them are so bad, but they're in a band that's at the top of the hit parade. I think people mix that up.

I can imagine that Rod Stewart likes giving autographs because he's pure showbusiness.

Combing my hair doesn't make me a better musician.