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

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

From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.

More American young people can tell you where an island that the 'Survivor' TV series came from is located than can identify Afghanistan or Iraq. Ironically a TV show seems more real or at least more meaningful interesting or relevant than reality.

See my father knew a lot about music, he played the piano and he would do theory and stuff like that, but I didn't learn anything from him, but I played that for him and he liked it a lot.

I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

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.