I started playing the acoustic guitar for more singer-songwriter type stuff. I bet if I would have gotten more approval for my "rock playing", I might be a world class shredder.

Music teachers can either inspire or make you resent your instrument and parents in early years.

I still have this unrealistic faith, that one day, my ship will come in. More people will discover, understand and buy my stuff.

In a way, I'm not at all jaded, and still enjoy so much what I do. It's a good trick.

I am doomed or fortunate to stick to what I do best.

I'm down with the whole patron thing. Bring back the Medicis. Maybe, I'm not just a lefty, but a royalist.

As a bit of loner, prone to melancholy, with a questionable sexuality, I found great solace in the words of-Dylan, Joni, John Prine and Leonard Cohen. The darker the better.