The whole reputation of being a rock guitar player, I could really care less about it. Still, when I hear new groups today I do occasionally hear something where I think... ahh, I've heard that lick before.

You can't get so interested in just making sounds. The point of it all is some kind of expression.

I'm not even sure who my audience is.

With my records, it's just a matter of trying to create something fresh for myself in a very finite context, which is the pop song. I don't know anything about the people who buy my records, and what, if anything, they get out of them.

I'm not a clown but I'm not an academic either.

The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

I never liked mellow sounding guitar.