'Triboluminescence' is actually a scientific world meaning striking something and creating light from dark. I thought it was a great word and that is….

For me, a great show is when there's a great rapport with the band and the audience, and we're all really into it. The first trick is to bring the au….

My favorite sounds are the high, spacey ones that are very ambient..

Start with the titles, and then build the music that goes with them..

There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to ….

It's exciting to see if you can create something that sounds, at least to your own ears, exciting..

I would like to play with electronic keyboards again..

I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion..

You come off of this screaming audience of many, many thousands of people. I used to find it very weird. You have two choices. Either you can stay an….

I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thi….

I think we are coming to a new era where people will record much faster..

As an artist, I move along in my life, into whatever things I'm doing, and I hear things where it's like, "Oh, that'd be a great [song] title! I'll u….

Aping what you've already done is just so dangerous and unrewarding..

It accumulates over the years and I've led so many bands of my own now and forced myself into new situations... You would hope that you play better a….

I don't go out much to see bands. I prefer to be on stage..

If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, eith….

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward..

I was totally into jazz in my teens..

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past..

What you aim for, in the first place, is to be as good as you can possibly be. This is what I do, and I'm going to try to be the best in the world..

More recently, I used guitar synthesizer extensively on the two albums I did with Robert Fripp..