The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.

One thing I've learned to appreciate as I've gotten a little older is direct forms of communication.

Like any form of death, at some point you just have to get up and say yeah I'll take it, whatever's gonna happen is gonna happen and sorta chop your head off. It's easy to avoid all that...there's always another moment, another girl, another high, another drug, there's always something to distract you.

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.

The point is to let the music be itself. If it doesn't mean anything to you, then it's bullsh*t.

It's wonderful to read interviews by old blues guys - they talk about all their influences, they talk about who taught them how to play, and who they saw, and how they were determined to play that way.

If you're really going to uncover something as an artist, you're going to come into access with parts of your personality and your psyche that are really uncomfortable to face: your own ambition, your own greed, your own avarice, your own jealousies, and anything that would get in the way of the purity of your own artistic voice.