Forget all that macho shit , and learn how to play guitar.

This is music I've known since I first started to play the guitar. Ray's music was one of my inspirations: He was a super soul-music man, but he was also a jazz musician, too. I see him as the height of honest expression.

When did Jimmy Stewart not play Jimmy Stewart? When did John Wayne not play John Wayne? But that's what we like about them. When you talk about acting, you really have to respond to somebody's personality.

I'm very fortunate to be doing the thing I do best, which is play guitar. There aren't many other things I could do.

He just had rotator cuff surgery, so he's just starting to be able to pick up his guitar and play it aggressively. He should have had [the operation] six months ago. It was an injury he sustained in a car accident. And then on top of that, all the playing we do and how we do it made matters worse. We're sort of the Dillinger Insurance Plan for the moment.

If we go once a month, we'll forget how to play, so it's best if we go every other week.