Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

I've really gone into business since I got the 6 string, which was like starting all over.

Regardless of what you play, the biggest thing is keeping the feel going.

It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.

I never practice my guitar. From time to time I just open the case & throw in a piece of raw meat.

If a jazz player is really playing, the classical player will have to respect him.

To me, all guitar players can play, because I know they're getting to where they're at. It's a very hard instrument to accept, because it takes years to start working with it, that's first, and it looks like everybody else is moving on the instrument but you. Then when you find a cat that's really playing, you always find that he's been playing a long time, you can't get around it.