All of my style came from listening to records.
After a couple of failed attempts, I came up with a weird tuning where I was dropping the G string down a step so that it became a seventh, and it got me to a place where I could play all these figures fairly easily. It was not an easy thing to work out.
If you're any good at all, you know you can be better.
Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.
That's basically what's going on now: Everything is propaganda.
I lost my power in the world because I did not use it.