I'm over 30 now, but I didn't expect to be here.

You can't expect to be the same person you were three years ago. Some people expect you to be and can't come to terms with the fact that if a year has elapsed between LPs, that means one year's worth of changes. The material consequently is affected by that, the lyrics are affected by that... the music too.

I really wasn't needed... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.

Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

A lot of people can't be on their own. They get frightened. Isolation doesn't bother me at all. It gives me a sense of security.

You don't find geniuses in street musicians, but that doesn't mean to say you can't be really good.

My finger picking is sort of a cross between Pete Seeger, Earl Scruggs, and total incompetence.