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"I never liked mellow sounding 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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"I don't see us as a big media gimmick band. We don't have a cultivated appearance or anything like Kiss."


"I wonder what all those Chinese poets sound like in Chinese. I like their distilled quality."


"It's like first grade where you make all your mistakes and people see it and yet some people see that there's something there that's really valuable. That's the way it went for more than 2 years almost 3 years of playing."


"I just don't like people coming up to me and saying something. It immediately makes you become insincere. There is no way you can react to it sincerely."


"All the Frank O'Hara types seem to have very little sound stuff going... it's so chatty or something."


"I think almost every woman artist I've ever met has this ideal of being in a partnership working situation with a man, that men don't seem to share. They seem to want this ideal thing, that we'll always be together and work together."
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