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With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds.

For me, anything can be music! I can get huge enjoyment and be moved totally by the purity and perfection of some Renaissance polyphony, but equally I can feel emotion in the expectant hum of a big old guitar amp just before the strings are hit.

When my guitar was growling, playing surf beat, you could hear it; you could feel it.

In real life I can play guitar, sure, but badly.

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

What I couldn't say verbally I was able to express physically through the guitar.

I feel like guitar explains a lot. You can just listen to a guitar without any lyrics over it; you can just feel what kind of track it is. If it's pain... you can feel it. It sets the mood.

I mean, the sound of an amplified guitar in a room full of people was so hypnotic and addictive to me, that I could cross any kind of border to get on there.

I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.