Quotes

I think Tupac Shakur was a genius. I want to do a hip-hop album with slide guitar some day.

I can take my children to see Madonna and I can enjoy it, but I never for once ever thought I was in the same business.

I'm a musician that was successful, I was never a rock star.

I love creating things and passionately believe we (the artists) should be looking to try new ways of bringing what we do to the public. There should be no rules whatsoever and, for God's sake, there are alternatives to TV talent shows. Sometimes, those who have had extremely good fortune in music allow only X Factor [The X Factor UK (2004)] type TV shows etc. to set the musical and cultural agenda of this county by actually doing nothing new or different themselves.

I was late to the guitar. I didn't pick up the instrument 'til I was 21. Think about how much the likes of Mark Knopfler or Eric Clapton had done before I even started.

I arrived in Hollywood for the Grammy Awards once and thought I was going to bump in to people who mattered, like Ry Cooder or Randy Newman. But I was surrounded by pop stars.

At one stage, you had to practice and rehearse non-stop to reach any sort of quality or success in music. Then digital came along and music company executives did not need to know about music to produce records. Musicians who had to practice for six hours a day were out on the dole, thanks to digital.