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I was left with an urge to make the guitar sound like things it shouldn't be able to sound like.

Experimenting with different sounds is great, but when it comes down to it, you're still playing a guitar.

The most obvious thing you can't do with a guitar synthesizer is to really sound like a guitar.

Well, you know it was so different from when you rehearsed. You're out there with your guitar and trying to get a sound, but it doesn't sound anything like what you expect!

All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels.

A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.

In recording, you're trying to make something work sonically - getting the right inflection on the right guitar sound - and maybe a part that would be musically great doesn't sound as cool. On paper, though, it's all stripped back. The musical idea is the one that wins.

That it's a lot harder to make a keyboard sound not-cheesy than a guitar.

It's been very hard for the guitar as a serious synthesizer to compete with keyboards.

But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.