I found my God in music and the arts, with writers like Hermann Hesse, and musicians like Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, and Little Walter. In some way, in some form, my God was always there, but now I have learned to talk to him.

I've always wanted the sound of Muddy Waters' early records - only louder

I feel a real need to observe a level of propriety in what I'm handing out. Instead of me just venting or spilling my guts, I've got to consider how it's going to affect people. How it's going to affect me, as well. Because it's like a cycle.

In playing, I suppose my greatest gift was to express the way I felt or the willingness to express myself.

Would you know my name, if I saw you in Heaven?

But the guitar, when you think about it, is the most versatile, really. I mean you can pick it up and take it with you wherever you go.

But I did go to music really early on, even when I was 4 or 5, I was responding to music probably in ways other kids were not.