I never think about any of my accomplishments and I always get butterflies in my stomach and I never get too comfortable with the status.
It's impossible to play a run with as much feeling as a single note. I've never been so much into runs as making single notes cry.
I have done some things that I'm very proud of. I don't think you can say any more than that, really.
I go through about two Fender mediums a night because I don't pick straight down; it's sort of sideways, and it shaves them off.
I feel I've been blessed with a gift of creativity and composition. That's why I've been able to keep going.
After I found April Barrows, I felt I had found a soul mate. Her stuff is exactly what I was looking for.
I'm a Top 40 record guy. I remember the hits and don't remember the flops. Something in my brain blocks them out.
Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.
When Peter Gabriel left, we obviously lost a very strong stage performer. Phil hasn't replaced him; Phil's done a different thing.
I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.
I did actually like school. When I was 17, I was in college, but before that, I was home-schooled. I was very social. I liked to know everyone.
Oasis can't be summed up in one word. I could do a sentence: Boys from council estate made it very, very big.
I'm used to people being a mile away. That suits me. It's more nerve-wracking playing in front of people who are two feet away from me.
Producers like to record all the drums first, then they do the bass, then all the guitars, so you're constantly moving from one song to another.
You can't really write a full album about your missus. She'll start getting the wrong idea and start thinking I like her.
I kind of feel like I didn't have much choice. The songs... the playing... those were the only things that ever really kept my attention.
My first place in Nashville was like 'Animal House.' The whole band lived under one roof, and most nights the jam sessions ended close to sunrise.
You know when a song has a melody or some kind of element that affects you, and that is what I am trying to go for.
My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
I didn't know if I had the music for it or if I could pull off the larger concert experience. Then I realized if I can just continue to be myself, I'll be all right.
I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.
