The Idea Of A Hypnotic Riff As

I Deal In Emotions. It's The Harmonic Side That's Important. That's The Side I Expected To Be Much Further Along On Than I Am Now. That Just Means To Say That I've Got To Keep At It.

My Vocation Is More In Composition Really Than Anything Else-building Up Harmonies Using The Guitar, Orchestrating The Guitar Like An Army, A Guitar Army. ... I Always Felt If We Were Going In To Do An Album, There Should Already Be A Lot Of Structure Already Made Up So We Could Get On With That And See What Else Happened. ... I Always Believed In The Music We Did And That's Why It Was Uncompromising. ... I Don't Think The Critics Could Understand What We Were Doing.

The Gut-strung Guitar, The Classical Guitar, That Is A Whole Different World On Its Own. When You Think What The Guitar Can Do And What Every Individual Player Does With A Guitar, Everyone Has Their Own Identity Coming Through The Guitar.

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.

There Are Very Few People I Can Call Real, Close Friends. They're Very, Very Precious To Me.