It is not a mystical thing, however, it is obvious and practical and I think that what the performer does is to try to get to that point with every choice you make from the phrasing in a tune to the choice of tunes.

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

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

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.

Musically, I am still hooked and just hypnotized by the sound of the guitar itself. I mean, a guitar sounds good if you drop it on the floor.

All bad jazz sounds like Woody Woodpecker.

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