Quote

I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.

Great guitar players are a dime a dozen. It is sometimes your very limitations as players that set you apart from the crowd.

Strangely enough, I wasn't into fast guitarists. I preferred Peter Green's subtle touch. I saw him with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers at the Marquee Club in London and was very impressed. He was the only guitarist I've ever seen to turn the volume control on his guitar down during a solo.

Chet Atkins... is probably the best guitar player who ever lived.

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

When I joined the band, being that I was going to take this up as a profession, I realized that there were no two finer guitar players in the world that I'd rather play with.

My dad is a huge rock and roll lead guitar fan. I didn't even really know that until recently. Everything has to have a guitar solo in it.

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.

Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.