I Actually Learned The Guitar

I Don't Know What You Wanna Describe As Rock 'n' Roll, But I Certainly Thought That 60s Stuff, Bob Dylan And The Beatles, Changed The World A Little Bit. But The Effect Seems To Have Retreated. I Think It's Harder Than We Think To Change The World. These Things Go In Cycles. It Doesn't Seem To Have Done An Awful Lot Of Good, Does It? You Know, All The Talk Of Racial Harmony And Equality In The World... We Haven't Got A Long Way Since The 60s.

I Think Myself That, Rather Like Books, Music Is Meant To Enter Into The Brain, Well Via Your Ears Rather Than Your Eyes But, It's - I Think A Lot More Should Be Left To The Imagination.

I Just Play Intuitively And Work The Same Way In The Studio. I Don't Have Any Magical Effects Or Anything That Helps Me To Get My Particular Sound.

These Days I Don't Look To Other People With The Objective Of Trying To Steal Their Licks, Although I've Got No Objections To Stealing Them If That Seems Like A Good Idea. I'm Sure That I'm Still Influenced By Mark Knopfler And Eddie Van Halen As Well......i Can't Play Like Eddie Van Halen. I Wish I Could. I Sat Down To Try Some Of Those Ideas And Can't Do It. I Don't Know If I Could Ever Get Any Of That Stuff Together. Sometimes I Think I Should Work At The Guitar More.

The Idea Of Going Around To Somebody Else's Flat Or House And Sitting Around In A Comfy Room And Having A Really Good Hi-fi System And Listening To A Whole Album All The Way Through, Then Chatting For A Few Minutes, Then Maybe Putting Another Album On . . . Does That Happen Today?