You can't really tell what the audience wants but you can tell what will keep everybody's attention in the same place.

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

I think if you are writing an instrumental you are dealing with more of an aesthetic in a sense but a lyric is more of a putting yourself on the line and a much more expensive exercise.

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

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 was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

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