I read somewhere that 77 per cent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 per cent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.

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.

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…

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...