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"I use a lot more chords than most organists and I'm careful to phrase them with the guitar."

"I'm a bass player from way back and Paul is a guitar player and we've been in many bands."

"It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before."

"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."

"Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it."
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"I'm starting to play all the melodies with kind of keyboard sound but playing it from the bass guitar."

"Yeah, my drum programming especially is based on my knowledge of playing a drum kit. For the bass too, definitely. It was the first thing that I translated any sort of ideas through. It must have shaped it somehow."

"Times of my life, brief periods without music, have completely felt dangerously over the edge."

"I like my stuff 'cause I only ever end up with tracks that I really, really like. It always appeals to me."

"The main thing I'm into is going about on a bike, taking random routes; I'm really into the idea of making up journeys, and just seeing where they take you, because they always end up taking you someplace freaky."

"Just the type of music that was around at the same time as I was writing. Some of it was wicked, definitely. But there was just one direction which I thought could be pushed that no one was pushing."

"Doing something like that, quite radically changing your approach to sound in one go, could leave you high and dry. It's happened before where people have changed direction and then everyone's stopped liking their music."
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