I grew up a Saints fan, an hour from the Superdome.
I would say seeing the original Yardbirds with Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page at the old Fillmore was a pretty powerful influence on me.
You know, you don't please everybody.
I am very aware now that music is a business, but there is also a way to go about making music that is true to yourself as opposed to doing, you know, just going through the motions and making things that would just be commercially successful.
In the absence of evidence to the contrary, always assume you have the upper hand.
Reading and writing music is a wonderful way of getting ideas in your head down to someone else who reads and writes, but if you don't read and write, and the other musician you're playing with are trying to express something who doesn't read and write, than it's a question of "I wrote" so that you must learn from listening and from understanding where that's coming from.
I don't recall getting a first guitar.
Athens, much like Austin, is a difficult music scene. There are so many musicians there that it is hard to get gigs and hard for people to take you seriously.
Travel is the ultimate inspiration.
I'm fond of all my characters so every time one doesn't make the cut I'm a little disappointed although I understand it.
English, I know you. . . you are German with a license to kill.