The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

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When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you.

I do not even laugh at this like others do because the relationship between entertainers and groupies is pathological.

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.