“And taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.”

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

King Crimson is never easy; it’s challenging. That’s why I like it.

I love drums and still play frequently.

My heart and soul are in the Stratocaster.

Someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

My inspiration and usual subject matter: life.

Currently I’m working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn’t be able to sound like.

Yes, but don’t forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.

Songs, ideas, even paintings are pouring out of me.

I’ve developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.

Nothing juices me up creatively like being in my own studio for an extended period.

I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines.

Analog for fatness and warmth.

I have enjoyed all the artists I’ve worked with.

My therapist taught me why I behave in certain ways and not to feel so pressured.

A schoolchild should be taught grammar-for the same reason that a medical student should study anatomy.

Racism is taught in the home. We agree on that? Well, it’s very hard to teach racism to a teenager who’s listening to rap music and who idolizes, say, Snoop Dogg. It’s hard to say, ‘That guy is less than you.’ The kid is like, ‘I like that guy, he’s cool. How is he less than me?

There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies.

There was one moment when I was in L.A., and he was teaching me a move. I just looked at him, thinking, ‘Oh my God, I’m being taught to wrestle by Dwayne Johnson. What the hell?’

Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education.

I pray for you every night. You’ve taught me to feel confident in myself, believe in myself that I can do it when I didn’t think I could do it.

I asked a girl who came from America to England, when I was only English, and she admitted she had been to a drama school. And I said, “What did they teach you?” And she said, “They taught me to be a candle burning in an empty room.”