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.

I'm also married for the first time, and I have two kids. So there's some kind of good karma right now.

If you're any good at all, you know you can be better.

Confounding people's expectations was a way to maintain integrity.

I also learned to be more confident, to trust my instincts more.

I just find things that work and embellish them.

I lost my power in the world because I did not use it.