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.

No, working is what will keep you alive.

I used my mother's radio as a PA system. I'd take the telephone, the speaking part, and take those two leads off and lead them into the radio and the sound would come out of the speaker.

..I wanted to create music that was so different that my mother could tell me from anyone else

If I have to go around telling everyone how great I am, then there's something wrong with my act.

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.

The audience, they're not professionals. They just love music. It isn't necessary to play over their heads to be admired.