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"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."
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"Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s."
Nature
"The video forum for me has been a source of great consternation because once you start projecting a look to a song, it robs the listener of their ability to adopt that song and make the lyric their own."
Ability
"A song that sounds simple is just not that easy to write. One of the objectives of this record was to try and write melodies that continue to resonate."
Objectives
"When I reach the point that I write Yesterday, then I can retire."
Yesterday
"I hate that word, mature, but I guess I am growing up."
Growing up
"That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing."
Feelings
"I'm not much of a partier anymore. I enjoy clarity much more."
Clarity
"Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life."
Life
"A lot of people seem to get preoccupied with what I'm wearing as opposed to the music."
Music
"Most writers like to maintain some sort of anonymity. For me, making videos was an assault."
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"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
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"I always wanted a guitar. I always wanted to be a cowboy singer because I also listened to Hank Williams, and he would always sing these neat romantic songs."
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"I just hate to be in one corner. I hate to be put as only a guitar player, or either only as a songwriter, or only as a tap dancer. I like to move around."
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"I don't really know why I chose bass except that it was different than guitar."
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"I did play every little note on the guitar on that record."
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"In the last couple of years I've been picking up my guitar again."
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"You should approach a sequencer like you would a Dobro guitar."
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"I just go where the guitar takes me."
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"I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through."
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"I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired."
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