When I got my first guitar my fingers wouldn't go to the sixth string so I took off the big E and played with just five strings. I was only 6 or 7.

It's not jazz as we know jazz here in America.

If you're in the U.S. and talk to someone on the phone who's in Iraq, you'll experience sound delay. It isn't long, but the sound has to go to a satellite and back, it's used for everything. I'm proud to have that be something I invented.

One minute we're over here, the next minute we're doing something completely different. But it's interesting because you are producing so many things you couldn't do with analog.

Of the whole bunch of guys who play hollow body guitar, I think Herb Ellis has the most drive

No, working is what will keep you alive.

I never stop being amazed by all the different ways of playing the guitar and making it deliver a message.