Water doesn't hurt a vinyl record. Put it into a dishwasher and you're fine.

It's important to collect unusual characters. It keeps you sharp.

When I was around 7 or 8 my Dad took me to a B.B. King recording session, well, that really did it. Huge and lasting impressions. After all that I pretty much knew playing guitar was something I was going to do because I just had to do it. And I did.

Experience is definitely the high road once driven. It actually enhances the songwriting and song sourcing process.

My mom took my sister and me to see Elvis [Presley] in concert when was, maybe 5 or 6, and I liked everything about it.

Turn on, tune up, rock out.

They prospect of seeing oneself in the mirror clean-shaven is too close to a Vincent Price film... a prospect not to be contemplated, no matter the compensation.