If you hand me a guitar, I'll play the blues. That's the place I automatically go.

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

I did play a lot of fingerstyle when I first started playing. I could never really find the right combination of flatpick or fingerpick, so playing fingerstyle is really the easiest way - though it's quite strenuous on the fingertips.

My definition of Blues is that it's a musical form which is very disciplined and structured coupled with a state of mind, and you can have either of those things but it's the two together that make it what it is. And you need to be a student for one, and a human being for the other, but those things alone don't do it.

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.

I never set myself too high a goal. It was always tone and feeling, for me.

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.