I have a curiosity that compels me to find ways to make music that are fresh and new.

For me, looking back is akin to being on a tightrope and looking down. It doesn't help you in the present moment to deal with what you have to deal with in order to move forward.

Jamming is really the most awful, excruciating experience for me; I really don't enjoy it.

Weirdly enough, if I'm having trouble with a guitar part - not the playing of it but the writing - I'll mess around with echo and other effects, just turn everything up and make it as crazy as can be, and it winds up taking me somewhere. I've found so many guitar parts from echo. It's limitless.

I'm very lucky to have been given a lot of freedom in my career, but it's also fun to play in other people's playgrounds!

I never really planned a career. I've tried to avoid it. I've tried to do this stuff I felt for, the stuff I like. So, I've just been meeting these fantastic directors who've offered me a variation of different parts and different films.

My advice to young people is to get something that's growing because that's how you get career opportunities thrown at you that you don't deserve, if you will... that come at you early because the firms need you.

Nobody forces you to work at Wal-Mart. Start your own business! Sell something to Wal-Mart!