It is only the most elite of elite musicians whose unconventional approach becomes convention.

When you get down to it, the way that the music affects you individually is the most important thing, and when you let things like the location of a band get in the way or have an effect on your overview, you're cheating yourself out of a really good time.

The only time I'm miserable is when I can't keep an instrument in tune.

When I was young, I wasn't a misfit or anything. I had friends in all the different social groups. But I had issues - just personal issues, insecurities and other things that had happened in my life.

If you want to play something that you hear, you need to listen with your mind's eye. You've heard of the mind's eye, right? Your mind has an ear too. It's a kind of listening, but it's not using your ears to listen. It's listening with your inner ear, and that's what you want to translate onto the guitar.

I have a deep love for life and my fellow human beings. I try to understand everything that everybody does, even if it seems wrong to me.

It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.