"For me, the guitar synthesizer is a great writing instrument."

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"I actually think I play better now than I've ever played."

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"If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger."

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"What I wanted to do was play the guitar but I don't like instrumental rock. I think it is tripe."

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"I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards."

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"I like jazz, but I could never play it. You just sit there with a guitar the size of a Chevy on your chest, wearing a stupid hat, playing the same solo for an hour."

"I'm pretty basic as far as technique is concerned. I don't use many gadgets, and I like the sound my guitar makes, anyway."

"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."

"You can be a singer, and you can be a guitar player, but putting them together is another animal."

"My guitar only has five strings 'cause the top one broke and I decided not to put it back on: when I play chords I only play bar chords, and the top one always used to cut me there."

"I didn't know that you were supposed to tune the guitar to an open chord, and I learned to play slide with a normal tuning. I think it's a little more melodic that way and doesn't sound so bluesy. Of course, if I could play like David Lindley or Ry Cooder, I'd be a happy man!"

"For me it always comes down to what is a good song and I'm very old fashioned in the way that I like to make songs that have something classic about them whether you can play them with an orchestra or an electro synthesizer or an acoustic guitar."

"When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting."

"The guitar chose me."

"I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice."

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"I'm just trying to avoid any sort of generic kind of music - I don't want to do generic jazz or fusion."

"I actually think I play better now than I've ever played."

"If I'm playing a violin thing, for instance, I tend to respond to that sound with the way I finger."

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"I've got four or five records in my head at a time that I try to work on and I would like to do a guitar trio record next - since The Police I've mostly made records with keyboards."