In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and was then played loud but with traditional grace and intelligence

Everything you do is challenging, hopefully, because if it's not, it's boring.

The environment is rarely put on tape, or if it is, it's so abstract that most people never realize it. They just don't know what it means. But if you can show it to them, then that's what becomes the main instrument.

Some things I like to do better than other things, but I've got to say that in the end, the thing that makes it the most interesting for me is who you're with, you know? It's people that make the difference in just about any field, right?

Something has to happen between you and the public, some interface that lets the public in on what you're doing.

I always think you should push your envelope every chance you get.

You're not born with certain skills; you have to acquire them.