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To me and my band, guitar riffs are what it's all about. We know that every time we jam on a great riff, we've got a fighting chance of writing a great song!

I try to look at most of my solos as a musical piece within the song, not, say, showing off.

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.

Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

And I've also come to the conclusion that, as far as guitar solos and things like that are concerned, it's more important to complement the music rather than take away from it.

A lot of my solo albums were produced by different people who had their idea of what songs I should do, and they had me doing a lot of ballads.

As part of Depeche Mode, I don't think it's right for me to be using my own songs for a solo project. I'm not a very prolific songwriter, so I keep those for Depeche Mode.

Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.

I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.