If you play jazz, then you play with your fingers. If you're playing rock, you use a pick. There's really no rhyme or reason to that other than that's just the way it has been.

The belief that we are what the media says we are, what people perceive we are, is soon to be what we think we are. We are treated based on this warped perception. It is hard to get away from it.

I had the fortunate experience to play with people from different schools of music. Sam Rivers is from the fundamentalist school of music.

Hard work is what keeps the ship moving.

I feel very honored to be playing with Bill Pierce. He's such a great musician.

The worst part is doubt. When you doubt yourself, which we are taught to do, you get lost.

In most places that are rich in guitar culture, everyone uses their fingers, like in Spain or Africa. In Japan there are string instruments played that way. It is not until you get in the States that you find people using picks.