I discovered after going to music festivals that I am a rock fan. I love the guitars, the phrasing, and the abandon of rock fans.
I have about 50 guitars around the house. I can't take more than a few steps without finding one to pick up.
Folk music is where I come from originally. The very first thing that introduced me to playing guitars at all was skiffle - my cousin had been in London the summer that skiffle was big.
I try to just encompass the entire feeling and emotion behind the song the best way possible, and if that's 100,000 screaming guitars right in your face, then that's what's going down.
When it came to rock, I was always drawn to guitars.
When I was a kid, we had acoustic guitars, a piano in the house. I made a drum kit out of buckets in my garage.
The more guitars we have onstage the better, as I'm concerned.
If you make rock music with guitars in it, the Radiohead comparison is inevitable.
Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.
The record companies didn't want 'Stony Road,' and it ended up being a gold album. They didn't want 'Blue Guitars,' and we did 165,000 books.
