You're forced to step into that performer role. I can't just hide behind a synthesizer forever.
If you're a guitarist, you should not be intimidated by using your instrument as a synthesizer, but you shouldn't feel that you have to own one, either.
I'm really not into the idea of just faking songs with a synthesizer. That just isn't the music I'm making at all.
But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.
It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.
It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.