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"My guitar is really tempermental. I don't give up on it though, I'm close to my guitar!"
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"It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards."
"Pete Townshend used to crash chords and let the guitar feed back. He's overrated."
"But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere."
"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."
"Puberty hit me very hard, and I basically had no use for school once I discovered the guitar."
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"Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me."
"For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people."
"Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music."
"I don't describe myself as a Christian or religious, but I like to think that how I live my life is honest."
"I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human."
"If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out."
"Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing."
"I never set out to write songs about the world around me... it just kind of came about as a result of paying more attention to things."
"I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash."
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