I'm not into that Keith Richard trip of having all those guitars in different tunings. I never liked the Rolling Stones much anyway.
Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.
I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes.
When you've toured for about 10 years like me, you end up feeling like you're always waiting for somebody or something. The whole day is a drag.
In my early days, I never used finger vibrato at all. I originally carved my reputation as one of the 'fast' guitar players.
I'm not really a foodie; I could eat the same thing every night, and I go to restaurants that I can walk to.
The new record started out being about loss, but it's morphed into being about how relationships go on even though one person is not in a body anymore.
I was down with Lucinda Williams and Mary Chapin-Carpenter. We did an acoustic tour, just the three of us, three chicks and three guitars.
I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike.
Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.
My insights come in periods of working. There are wonderful moments of surprise, but I'm superstitious enough not to want to talk about them.
The eye is the most refined of our senses, the one which communicates most directly with our mind, our consciousness.
In this movement of colors I find the essence, which does not arise from a system, or an a priori theory.
I call it fan fatigue. I went to see Bob Dylan last year, who I think is absolutely incredible, but he suffers from his audience.
I don't tend to lie. If I do, it's a little one. Like, 'I'm only around the corner...' when really I'm 10 minutes away.
I'm not afraid of a rant, am I? I've got to that point where I've just become a woman; I think I've just grown.
I'd definitely like more kids when I'm older. And I think I'm like every woman in that I'd like to get married one day.
But boy, right away it is fun to play around with the Paintbox program.
After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.
I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me.
Don't shift because fashion has shifted. Don't move from the original ethic you had, the original reasons. They're part and parcel of you.
