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Surf music is actually just the sound of the waves played on a guitar: that wet, splashy sound.

I've got a Fender Concert amp from the '60s, the one Joe Osborn used. He played his bass through it.

Describing certain sounds, there's a common language that guitar players have.

Strats are my favorite electric guitars, and I've got quite a collection.

The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.

What I play now isn't surf music. It's too powerful. I used to go through paper bags; now I go through brick walls. I play hard.

I mainly use Stratocasters. I like a lot of different kinds of guitars, but for what I do, it seems that a Stratocaster is the most versatile. I can pretty much get any sound out of it, and I use stock pickups.

I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I play the twang of the string, which is a lot closer to the source of the sound making.

My stepfather had an electric guitar. He went to his pawn store one day to get a guitar and an amp, and I couldn't understand what I was hearing. All afternoon, I just sat against the amp and let it reverberate through me. Something must have stuck.