Guitar Magazine, 1995

•  "I'm playing the St Helens' blues. There's no
  Mississippi in me at all. I'm not trying to sound 65 years old...
  it's not this retrospective thing. Listen to (The Stone Roses')
  John Squire on 'The Second Coming' and you can almost hear the
  taste barriers go up. He's become too obsessed with this idea
  of what a good guitar player should sound like. He's lost the
  plot really, hasn't he?
  F'rinstance, you walk into Wigan practice rooms and you'll hear
  bands playing Cream songs and that. They must see it as their
  apprenticeship, I suppose - as if, once you're good enough to
  play all these other people's songs, then you're good enough to
  do your own. That's rubbish. The Verve have never played cover
  versions. Why should we? Why not make something new?"