Nobody stopped thinking about those psychedelic experiences. Once you've been to some of those places, you think, 'How can I get back there again but make it a little easier on myself?'

I can envisage a new world in which society has a way for there to be music, whose function is to get you high, that's the sort of thing we're hammering at...

For me, I think the only danger is being too much in love with guitar playing. The music is the most important thing, and the guitar is only the instrument.

You have to get past the idea that music has to be one thing. To be alive in America is to hear all kinds of music constantly - radio, records, churches, cats …