Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.

Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.

There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.

When you're a guitar teacher, you teach people for a few years, and you become comrades after a while. Because everybody eventually catches up to everybody else, and you want to help each other out - to see if you can make the dream a reality.

I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and then you can improvise.

It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

I always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time.