I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
I like to play video games like 'Rock Band' and 'Guitar Hero.'
The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.
I've played the guitar since I was 12, and just taught myself songs chord by chord.
Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.
I didn't really learn how to play guitar until I was in college.
Generally my songs are just some riffs slung together as an excuse for a guitar solo.
I actually first picked up an ukulele before I picked up a guitar.
I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.
I think it gets boring (for the audience) for the lead singer to have a guitar hanging on them all the time.
My room is never clean. I play 'Guitar Hero' all the time and throw things around my room.
And then I got into sports and gave my guitar to my brother Jeff who was just a little kid at that time.
The music of Hendrix wakes people up to their possibilities. It's more than just dreaming about being a guitar hero.
I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.
I taught myself how to play guitar - pretty badly, but I knew enough about music to start to figure it out.
All of my kids are into music. My older daughter plays guitar, piano, sings. My young son, he sings.
As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
When I pick up the guitar, it's a melody, and that's what drives the lyrics. It's bits and pieces of truth, but it is storytelling.
Currently I'm working with Parker Fly on a new Midi guitar to arrive next year.
I suppose my father was more influential in my starting to play the guitar.
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
