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"Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar."
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"Now they have banging guitar and no bass and call it rock, but that's not what I call rock."
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"I just managed to convince my grandmother that it was a worth while that was something to do, you know, and when I did finally get the guitar, it didn't seem that difficult to me, to be able to make a good noise out of it."
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"Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public."
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"Unless the guitar works as a color, then I don't use it, so I haven't been playing guitar too much lately."
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"We didn't have any instruments, so I had to use my guitar."
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"I always use the same guitar; I got this guitar years and years ago for nine pounds. It's still got the same strings on it."
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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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"I had different bands. I played with the Acoustic Warriors for the most part, without girl singers. It was the same kind of sound, acoustic guitar, bass, with violin and sometimes accordion, and the guys would sing, that kind of thing."
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"James Brown is the reason I play guitar."
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"I still play the guitar and piano, but hardly ever in public."
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"I don't want to mix the identities. Noah Drake isn't Rick Springfield."
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"I've heard from writers and musicians and fans that they think I'm underrated."
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"They were marketing me as a teen idol, when the stuff on the record was not what teen idols were doing at the time."
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"Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs."
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"I've been writing songs since I was 14 years old, and that's my true love."
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"Music is a 24-hour-a-day thing for me."
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"When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get."
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"I was one of those dark, quiet kids that wrote poetry."
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"I took that time off - I knew it was messing me up, not being connected to a spiritual plane."
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"Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar."
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