Every album is difficult. If it was easy, we'd make one a month.

Running my hands really fast up and down the fretboard... I mean, anybody can do that. It's the Guitar Olympics, and I can't think of anything more pointless.

Every album is difficult. If it was easy, we'd make one a month.

Clarity of vision - what you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seen at all.

Advertising and art are getting all mixed up. I think some of the most exciting pieces of TV are the commercials.

Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.

If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.