My parents worked for Exxon, and they gave me every chance to take part in music. I took guitar lessons, and I was in the choir at school.
When I'm not touring, I sing at home, either at the piano or I'll pick up my guitar, singing old Buck Owens songs.
As a kid I used to pretend I was John Denver, of all people, and play the guitar and sing Take Me Home, Country Roads.
The media says that equality for women has arrived, but if you look around, you still don't see girls playing guitars and having success with it.
I don't sing. I played guitar for a while. I'm not great, I'm not Lenny Kravitz by any means, but I do like to strum.
There are a lot of really good guitar sounds and new kind atmospheres on the new Bon Jovi record. I think people are going to dig it, man. And it rocks hard.
People forget the punk thing was really good for women. It motivated them to pick up a guitar rather than be a chanteuse. It allowed us to be aggressive.
I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.
Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to be separated from the man.
I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.
When you play the 12-string guitar, you spend half your life tuning the instrument and the other half playing it out of tune.
I was just learning to play guitar when Tracy Chapman came out. She wrote these songs, she played them by herself and I so admired her for that.
Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.
I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.
I learned to tune a guitar by ear. That method has served me pretty well.
I was probably 7 years old when I started playing the guitar and writing some serious songs.
I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.
I did pick up a guitar once, but the strings hurt my fingers so I put it down again.
I play mostly guitar, and I played drums in my brother's band for a while growing up.
I pestered the hell out of everybody I ran into until I could play the guitar well enough to write and sing with it.
I would hole up in my bedroom growing up and teach myself guitar.
