Something has to happen between you and the public, some interface that lets the public in on what you're doing.

There are those who make music and movies in a linear way: They plan them, they have a script. Of course, you have to have a script sometimes, but that alone isn't enough.

Something has to happen between you and the public, some interface that lets the public in on what you're doing.

I just feel that music is a great life, because it's very rewarding. It's a gratification. You do this for yourself, and you also do this for other people.

In oddball places, the electric guitar has been taken as an almost alien object - this weird, six-stringed instrument that fell down to earth and was then played loud but with traditional grace and intelligence

I have to think that somewhere on some little island in the Pacific, there's someone's who's great, but I'm probably never going to hear him.

Bad music can make you weak.