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I'm not a great guitarist, but I do bits and bobs. I'm mainly a songwriter and a composer. I've done a lot of scoring and some stuff for British pop music that did pretty well, but I've mainly been working on my own stuff with Duncan Sheik.

I don't try to write songs that will further my career. I write about things that I care about. I don't have a career as much as I'm having an adventure with a guitar. I never liked the business way of doing it. You have to follow some sort of instinct.

I've never been much of a guitarist. I mean, I've played forever, but I was always more of a rhythm kind of guy. I don't read music.

I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.

I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

As a guitar player, it's harder for me to impress somebody than it is to write a song that they like.

I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.

I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.

For me, songwriting is really where it's at. I turn to use the guitar just to help me write the songs. That's it. As a result, my guitar playing suffers pretty horribly.

I just play the guitar and write songs.