It was almost two years after I left Capital that I put out the first one on Chrysalis and that was really instructive because it was no better in particular than any other record I'd done.

I was two and a half and my folks would put it on the record player and I would run around the house screaming, but I haven't been that hip since.

Yes and for two reasons: one, I couldn't find anything to imitate at the time, and secondly because what I heard on the radio didn't bear any resemblance to what I wanted to hear on the guitar.

The first music I was exposed to was Stravinsky and I loved it but I don't remember it.

I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there.

I have always thought of myself as a performer first and way down the line as a recording artist.