I'm aware of the fact that a lot of talented people out there will never get this chance.

I love any and all situations where you celebrate creativity.

... there are a lot of shredders in country music - Redd Volkaert, Brent Mason, Dan Huff .. and guys like that

Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's my experience that in the end, life lessons and guitar lessons begin to blur in all sorts of interesting ways.

This is real, this is your life in a song...this is country music.

I can fall in and out of love, have marriages that barely last a month. When they go down the drain, I'll blame it on the fame.

Guitar playing isn't really for everybody.