The first time I tried to write was when I was 14, after I got an electric guitar. I put a song together, and it wasn't that bad! The writing came natural to me.

I started writing when I was 13. I got my first electric guitar when I was 13, but I'd always been singing. I had my first little acoustic when I was six. But I started being in bands when I was 13.

I bought my first electric guitar when I moved to Memphis; a Gibson with a DeArmond pickup which I used with a small Gibson amplifier.

Great musicians are great musicians, whether they're playing a trombone or an electric guitar or a xylophone.

I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.

In high school, I got into folk music, and I taught myself guitar. And when The Beatles came out, I got an electric guitar.