Adrian Belew quotes:

Digital for storage and quickness. Analog for fatness and warmth.

We expect to keep our writing sessions going until late spring, then to play some new material in a few secret club dates. The record will likely take a long time and may not surface until 1999!

Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.

King Crimson will soon be touring parts of Europe.

I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year, the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

Age 10. I joined the school marching band as a drummer.

King Crimson is never easy; it's challenging. That's why I like it.

Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.

I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

DUST includes rarities, demos, unreleased songs and instrumentals, live recordings, and more.

I thought I might be a band instructor, someone who plays all the instruments and teaches others.

I have no secrets; all of these things have been discussed at length in guitar magazines over the years but are far too elaborate to cover in one article.

My heart and soul are in the Stratocaster

I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder.

The only drawback is once the work is done you rarely see each other.

I have enjoyed all the artists I've worked with.

I borrowed a guitar at age 16 and taught myself to play because I wanted to write songs.

As much as I love performing, nothing juices me up creatively like being in my own studio for an extended period. Songs, ideas, even paintings are pouring out of me. My inspiration and usual subject matter: life.

I love drums and still play frequently.

My favorite puzzle is trying to work out the parts myself, after all it is a solo effort.

As you can appreciate over my lifetime I've developed a large vocabulary of sounds each requiring certain physical techniques often combined with a specific effect box.