I have a buddy of mine who's a musician, and I play guitar and sing quite a bit with him.
I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
The guitar is a means of expressing music, When you get into the emotional side of it, then it's not the guitar that matters so much as the music itself. But the guitar is the vehicle I use. It's how I express myself. As for the emotional side, music takes up where language leaves off. To try and verbalize what music says, emotionally and spiritually, is futile. Let me put it this way, Louis Armstrong once said if you've got to ask, you'll never know.
The guitar is the easiest instrument to play and the hardest to play well.
Well, I started writing songs about three years ago when I learned to play the guitar, but I've been singing since I was eleven.
I have somewhat [Taylor's or Gallagher's guitars], but I like the power of the Martins.
I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.
I always thought Kurt Cobain was the perfect embodiment of the great alternative guitar player.
But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.
I listened to classical guitar and Spanish guitar, as well as jazz guitar players, rock and roll and blues. All of it. I did the same thing with my voice.