I'm first and foremost a guitar player. I've been playing since I was 12, which is over half of my life.

I'm a bit of a vagabond - a person who loses time and space because you don't know where you are.

Putting your ego aside and confronting your weaknesses and just letting things happen is hard. Not to use a Scientology term, but it's difficult to do an emotional or an artistic audit.

I think anything that you can't poke fun at is a little too precious.

For a brief moment, I considered deconstructing the song and going down a cerebral road, but then I realized it would kill what is most powerful about it.

I don't even wanna say female guitar-players, just guitar-players, because music of all things doesn't need to be gendered and stratified, that's so boring.

I have a lot of guitar heroes I guess, some of them are female and some of them are male. Robert Fripp is one of them, and Marc Ribot, that's another guitar hero.

I have the weirdest job. It's not every day that you get to stand up onstage and unload every ounce of your misanthropic bile onto a crowd of people, and they're like, "Cool! Hit us again!"

I wouldn't say I'm a very technical [guitar] player. I'm more intuitive - it's always more about chasing an abstraction.

All these things that we are very nostalgic for come from a place of technology dictating [art]. This time and place is no different.

An mp3 is a compressed form of data. It's not the full spectrum. It's never going to sound as good as a record.

Someone ... tell us what's important, because we no longer know.

God speaks to all individuals through what happens to them moment by moment.

In great matters men show themselves as they wish to be seen in small matters as they are.

We have to repair that trust ... I think anytime a public official lies, he undermines his own authority and squanders the public trust.

If it isn't bolted down, bring it home.

A diverse and lively collection, the highest art of the interview.

My mic is a Magnum. See me and this chick, we go back like Cro-Magnon. Man...we did it in the back of your Magnum; I said, 'Put them Lifestyles back, give me the Magnums.'

You have to talk about what you love, to bring what you love to you.

Getting wasted is only OK when you're young enough to not know better.

Women are often under the impression that men are much more madly in love with them than they really are.