We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.

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.

Music took a bunch of average-Joe Christians who could play electric guitar and sing and threw them into the limelight. But we were not a bunch of Billy Grahams.

Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

I get to play a scorching lead guitar, and there's not much that's more fun than that.