I will obviously take on board everything from my past, I always do.
Music has nothing to do with your technical ability.
A certain death of an artist is overconfidence.
To me there's a definite way of doing a song. If I didn't think that, I wouldn't have done it that way in the first place.
I can't say I feel influenced by today's guitar players.
Once you start copying other people's licks, you begin thinking they're yours. Doing that's just an easy way out.