I have somewhat [Taylor's or Gallagher's guitars], but I like the power of the Martins.

I give NFL quarterbacks a lot of leeway for a couple of years.

My playing style is very eccentric and mostly self taught.

I've refined it since [ was living in Beaumont, Texas], but I was just obsessed with the guitar. I remember one day sitting in class and it just came to me how the neck worked. I was enlightened to the scales, and the runs. I just saw it and thought; now I understand it!

I had a guy who went out of way to help me get started and somehow saw something in me. I couldn't get my hands on a real guitar till I was fourteen. I always wanted one from the time I was a tiny kid. Music was bigger than life to me.

I did admire the comments and the music of Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie. And that didn't fly too well in the Deep South. It was not quite redneck enough.

I notice guys playing the piano playing a part up here and a part down there, and I wandered why couldn't I do that on the guitar?