Once you feel that you've learned some skills and you know how to make records, the next thing is, "Do we ever get to make one that people will really like?" Because then we'll have something to do.

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.

If you can't get yourself understood, you may have trouble, so you need some interpretation every now and again wherever you might be.

Beautiful tunes are all very good and fine, and great musicians are always great, but that alone isn't enough.

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

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

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