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The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

Washburn's an old American name, but this one was assembled overseas.

I'm like a twenty-two-year-old kid in a new band trying to get noticed and break through, because the vast majority of people have never seen me play live.

You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

The ones I have got great necks; of course, all of the Fenders from that era are incredible.

There's just not a lot of guys around playing like that these days; a lot of steel players are plugging into stomp boxes, trying to sound like Jeff Beck on a steel guitar.

The only sliding I did was on the kind of instrument that you put on your lap; no Spanish electrics.

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

I wrote that song for my wife, and it's what some guy who's sitting under a tree would be singing to the woman of his life, telling her how wonderful she is. To me, that's more lasting than something that sounds like it belongs on a movie soundtrack.

I went pretty much for one tone, and I knew at that time that I wanted to play a Rickenbacker.

Even though James Burton was my idol, I didn't think I could carry his shoes back then.

I've also become much more the musician I've always wanted to be.

I'm much more energetic now; you might say live performance is my mission.

I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.

I work hard at that, but the fact that there are a lot of good songs means there are also a lot of really bad songs I've written that you never hear.

I don't know that all the demons have been beaten, but I'm very, very proud of those songs.

And I now think that Stratocasters and Telecasters are way cool.

I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.

I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing is a whole other thing. It'll come from handling a guitar, mostly; thinking up little guitar riffs. I was born and raised a rock 'n' roll guy, and that's the rock 'n' roll ethic, at least through my experience.

Playing guitar is a never-finished journey.