Live Aid Did Feel Like One Hour's

The Blues Appealed To Me, But So Did Rock. The Early Rockabilly Guitarists Like Cliff Gallup And Scotty Moore Were Just As Important To Me As The Blues Guitarists.

When I Started Doing Sessions, The Guitar Was In Vogue. I Was Playing Solos Every Day.

If You Wanted To Chart New Territories And Head Off Over The Horizon, You Had To Make Sure You Weren't Overly Influenced By What Others Were Doing ... So It Didn't Matter What Other Bands Were Doing ... We Did What We Were Doing.

I Feel Aleister Crowley Is A Misunderstood Genius Of The 20th Century. Because His Whole Thing Was Liberation Of The Person, Of The Entity, And That Restrictions Would Foul You Up, Lead To Frustration Which Leads To Violence, Crime, Mental Breakdown, Depending On What Sort Of Makeup You Have Underneath. The Further This Age We're In Now Gets Into Technology And Alienation, A Lot Of The Points He's Made Seem To Manifest Themselves All Down The Line.

I Remember One Particular Occasion When I Hadn't Played A Solo For, Quite Literally, A Couple Of Months. And I Was Asked To Play A Solo On A Rock & Roll Thing. I Played It And Felt That What I'd Done Was Absolute Crap. I Was So Disgusted With Myself That I Made My Mind Up That I Had To Get Out Of It. It Was Messing Me Right Up.