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

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

Every setback might be the very thing that makes you carry on and fight all the harder and become much better.

To this day, no one has come up with a set of rules for originality. There aren't any.

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.

.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive