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"I wasn't originally a bass player. I just found out I was needed, because everyone wants to play 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."
"I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing."
"If I'm playing with Ozzy it's just a guitar thing. But with the vocals I feel like I'm studying for the SATs."
"So I'll set a cycle in motion and pop it into record and I'll lay down a drum pattern, a bass line, a keyboard and guitar part, and once the groove is going I launch into the song and sing my song over the top."
"T-Bone Walker was a big influence on just about every guitar player around."
"I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing."
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"Talking Heads, for me and Chris, was a very personal thing that we shared with a lot of people. In a way, I'm glad it's over, because it allows us to move beyond the restrictions that followed."
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"If you have this passion for music, you don't stop doing it - it chooses you and doesn't release you."
"I have respect for those who make money at art and do it well and smartly, because that commercial aspect keeps the world going and running, in a sense."
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