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"If you play acoustic guitar you're the depressed, sensitive guy."
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"I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race."
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"There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back."
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"I like the bad-boy types. Generally the guy I'm attracted to is the guy in the club with all the tattoos and nail polish. He's usually the lead singer in a punk band and plays guitar. But my serious boyfriends are relatively clean-cut, nice guys. So it's strange."
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"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
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"He is the king. If it hadn't been for Link Wray and 'Rumble,' I would have never picked up a guitar."
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"I have no guitar technique."
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"I was a drummer and I played the guitar."
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"I had given up the guitar between '75 and '78. I completely lost interest. I was sick of hearing other guitar players and I was tired of my tunes."
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"I'm thinking about learning a few new things - like taking classical guitar lessons - and I'd like to bring what I learn into hard rock."
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"With a guitar I would be able to express the things I felt in sounds."
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"It touches on drug use. I got caught up in that for almost two years."
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"I rode on a float in one of the parades in Mississippi. It's an experience."
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"There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing."
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"Well, I try not to think about the general public since I have no idea what the general public is and I don't think anybody does."
Idea
"It's just that a lot of songs that are popular right now, they don't have any meaning."
Meaning
"I mean people just have a way of - y'know they'll review your record in two sentences and put you in this little stupid box that you don't want to be in."
People
"But I was also doing odd jobs around Portland, like spreading gravel and transplanting bamboo trees."
Job
"I can't think of anything off the top of my head that seems more important than something designed to raise money to keep something going that keeps IV drug users from dying."
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"I was trying to do the same thing that I always do which is make an interesting record."
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"I like home recordings and studio recordings just as much as each other - I don't think one is better - but for this record I wanted to see what I could do in a real studio with real producers."
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