If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.
Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.
It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it means it's good.
I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and then you can improvise.
Solos I kind of [couldn't] care less about. I know most people probably think that's what I care most about, but it's really the melody playing that is the cornerstone of what I'm working on.
When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes.
I'm ready to take the heat.
When these guitar mags bring up that stuff up and say such and such came up with this and that which is pushing the boundaries, I just say, "let's step back for a minute and admit something: nothing has happened for the last 100 years." And it's okay. It's not a bad thing ... We're all working with "tools" that have been in existence for the last 100 years and there hadn't been a new "tool" for a long long time.
I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second.
R.I.P. Steve Jobs. I bet you're busy right now revolutionizing and redesigning the afterlife for all of us to enjoy when our time comes
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