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The process of selecting the tone on the guitar is an aesthetic process like any other, so you try a lot of different things.

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

The people who really got me off were dealing with the musical potential of the Instrument.

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

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

I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

Still others want a traditional guitar sound if they call you for guitar.

In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. On paper, though, it's all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.

My whole life is geared to play guitar. I play what I want when I want and I hope the listener gets as much pleasure listening to the music as I get playing it.

I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for five years. So my style was already formed, and that's why I think it's so unique.