He was really fantastic to have in the studio because he was full of surprises. It's hard to explain why it would take us eight months or whatever to make a record. But six months were just messing, playing around, songwriting in the studio. The others don't count me as a musician. In fact the only way to get Edge to play the guitar is when I start playing it.
Edge thinks that the guitar is a bit of a stupid instrument.
Well, it's not the instrument that he thinks is stupid, he thinks most guitar players are, because they all sound the same or like someone else. He is almost embarrassed about being a guitar player because he wants to sound fresh, so he kind of avoids it. We bought him a spiky helmet for the studio because it got very mad in the last few months and he really needed to get strict. We love to start things but find it hard to finish them. We get bored, get excited about something else and want to move on.