I also know that I am not a great technician.

Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.