I didn't want to get attached to one guitar; I didn't want to have an instrument that was irreplaceable.
People do ask, 'Are you going to embellish this stuff?' I wouldn't change any of my guitar parts.
My dad was vehemently opposed to electric guitars. He did not look on that kind of music as legitimate in any way.
What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.
My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.
I have to practice to be good at guitar. I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.
I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.
I love 'Guitar Hero,' and I think it's a part of pop culture.
I love 'Crazy Horse,' and Neil Young is one of my favorite guitar players.
I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.
I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
The guitar is a much more efficient machine than a computer. More responsive.
Picking up a guitar - I couldn't imagine doing anything else.
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.
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.
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.
