Will Sergeant

“A lot of our stuff is based on textures. It's not just chords and riffs.”

“I always thought of the guitar as a tool to paint pictures with sound.”

“The whole Bunnymen thing... it's a bit of a magical, weird thing, really.”

“The first album was very stark and angular, very post-punk. Then we started bringing in more psychedelic elements.”

“It was all about the vibe. It wasn't about being technically amazing. It was about creating an atmosphere.”

“We never wanted to be like anyone else. We were just trying to sound like us.”

“The Bunnymen were never a part of any scene. We were always on our own, on the outside.”

“I never really learned scales or theory. I just played what sounded right to me.”

“We had this gang mentality. It was us against the world.”

“Our music has a kind of epic, cinematic quality to it, I think.”

“It's all about the song at the end of the day. The guitar part has to serve the song.”

“We were influenced by things like The Doors and Television, but we twisted it into our own thing.”

“I'm not a shredder. I'm more interested in creating a mood or a feeling.”

“Liverpool in the late '70s was a bleak place, but it created a certain kind of energy. It made you want to escape.”