Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.

I found the blues too limiting, and classical was too disciplined.

I don't play by those rules; I'm my own worst enemy sometimes. There's something in me that has to go against the grain. You know, I don't like to be a dead fish, swimming with all the other dead fish, I like to go upstream sometimes, against the flow.

Session work makes you more strict. You can't hit notes all over the place. You've got to make each one really count.

When you're recording, if you're not really clean in your playing, it sounds like a mess.

The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument.

I don't see myself as such an important guitarist.