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.
I grew up in the suburbs and was raised on rap radio, so it took me a long time to stumble upon the acoustic guitar as a resource for anything.
There are a lot of people who can do it on the guitar and sing at the same time, but I think what is harder is bass players that can play the bass and sing.
While I was with Procol Harum, the only time I'd see my guitar was either when I walked onstage or in the studio.
Doyle: Linda, go get my guitar. It's out there with that looney toon.
Radiohead and Our Lady Peace are doing the seven layers of guitar, and I kind of jumped on that before anyone else did.
When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.
I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music does.
I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.
I do play the guitar, but I do it for fun. And I am terrible at writing music as well. I have tried and failed, horribly.
I don't know about folk music. I play guitar, so there's a feeling I make folk music.
