The Term "genius" Gets Used Far Too

You Know What You Can Gain When You Sit Down With The Moroccans. As A Person And As A Musician. That's How You Grow.

Many People In The Neighborhood Liked Hip-hop And House Music, And I Couldn't Play That. You Can't Perform That On Guitar Or Drums, Which Was What I Was Playing, At The Time. But, I Got So Much From Mariachi Bands That Were Constantly Playing In The Neighborhood.

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.

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.

You Can't Expect To Be The Same Person You Were Three Years Ago. Some People Expect You To Be And Can't Come To Terms With The Fact That If A Year Has Elapsed Between Lps, That Means One Year's Worth Of Changes. The Material Consequently Is Affected By That, The Lyrics Are Affected By That... The Music Too.