You're in direct contact with the music by having the strings under your fingers. It's not mechanical like a piano.

When you come from the Midwest, you have a more open mind than if you come from the West Coast or the East Coast.

If you're not having fun it's not worth doing.

My first joint I smoked onstage in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. I smoked my first joint live.

I used to listen a lot to Rolling Stones records and play along with them when I was first starting. It's a good way to learn, jamming around basic music.

I'll hear something in my head, then eventually play it. But it's a subconscious thing. Most of the time I really don't know what I'm playing.

Once I was playing and moving around and I fell right on my back. Just straight on my back. It was the most embarrassing moment of my life.