I'm going through a phase where I'm really accomplishing a lot of things and in that is everything I've learned.

Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.

And this whole period of time of gradually working at being a better guitar player and songwriter have gradually led me to the point where I feel I'm doing a clearer representation of the thing that I've been feeling inside me since I was four years old.

Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.

What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and I’m trying to represent the feelings that I’m feeling as purely as possible

As far as my solo record, I don't want a gold record or anything, I'm happy to be small and to have the people appreciate the music who really like me for being me.