I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.

When the audience is awful you can still have a great night and people will walk out thinking they had a great time even though there was loads of loudmouths and the sound was terrible.

I am evidence that you don't have to sell a lot of records or succeed in the usual way to have a big audience and a job.

I do have a library of events I can talk about and I always expect to find a different point of view on it so even if I talk about the same event in the same town it's fresh.

I had been playing single note instruments and I wanted to hear a guitar played as a piano.

When a record company looks at me I'm very hard to market, I don't really fit anywhere, It's hard to get me on the air, and I'm hard to demography, but! because of that I'm not subject to trends like you pointed out.

With all these great (guitar teachers) around here, don't cop their licks, COP THEIR ATTITUDE.