Kerouac was a breeze, some kind of incredible super-American, mythos personality blasting through the highways of 1947 America.

All I know is, if you listen to society, you'll never get anywhere!

If something doesn't work, it becomes obvious immediately. This just isn't going to work.

I'm goin' where the wind don't blow so strange, maybe off on some high cold mountain chain.

In folk music, I've always been fond of the fragment. The song that has one verse. And you don't know anything about the characters, you don't know what they're doing, but they're doing something important. I love that. I'm really a sucker for that kind of song.

Stuff that's hidden and murky and ambiguous is scary because you don't know what it does.

I'll try any guitar just to see if it's different in an effort to see if it will lead me anywhere. I'm trying to have a guitar built. What's needed is better instruments, better amplifiers, better hardware for electric music to get better.