I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.

A trumpet sounds pretty much like a trumpet, and that's true of a lot instruments; pianos sound like pianos, but there's something about the guitar - the range of possibilities is much broader.

Clarity of vision - what you've been looking at from the wrong angle and not seen at all.

I'm a minimalist at heart. If a song doesn't need a solo, I'm not going to force one into it.

Why is the rabbit unafraid? Because he's smarter than the panther.

Rock and roll isn't a career or hobby - it's a life force ... it's just something I have to do.

If there is a perfect book to start the year with it has to be Rebecca Mead's My Life in Middlemarch.