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"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."
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"If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy."

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

"I would walk down the hall with my guitar and play for anyone that would listen. As a young kid I was really driven and I was going to make it happen no matter what."

"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."

"I think the way I play the guitar is very percussive. I play a lot of rhythm chops as though I were playing congas or something."

"I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke."

"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."
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"Getting back to the point, a guy like Jerry, he deals with the business, and he doesn't see it as being evil or ugly, it's what you have to do, and I mean I know there's some really ugly parts to it and parts which drive me nuts, but not in the same way as music business."


"While I'm quite happy and love doing the atmospheric and quirky stuff, the melodic stuff, I've done quite a lot of. It's also another reason why I try not to do two or three at the same time."


"I don't mind snakes. Growing up in South Africa there were a couple a snakes around... and I'm not talking just about the government!"


"Yes was a band where we could explore some of those ideas, but I knew that if I wanted to get into orchestral music and make a living at it, movies seemed to be a perfect spot."


"When I finished a song that I thought was good, I thought, I don't know where that came from, so I have no idea if I can do that again. I'm talking like, a hundred and fifty songs down the line. I still feel that."


"I've done that quite often, but I've got to be quite honest... as much as you would want to only do one at a time, sometimes projects overlap and there's nothing you can do. Sometimes you to have begin writing a new project just as you're finishing off another."


"You know, usually with movies there are periods, dark areas, where I might not be getting what I wanted out of a theme. I'll have to go over and over it again."


"I love being in a band. I love that collaborative spirit, although some would suggest that I don't get involved in the collaborative spirit, but it's not true."


"Yes well I've done three movies with Samuel L. Jackson, so I've met him a couple of times already. Well, I see him everyday, but its only on the screen."


"One of the things I try to be very careful of is not taking a movie when I know I have no inspiration left."
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