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To me, the guitar is a tool for songwriting, and it's fun, too. The day that it's not fun, that's when I'm not gonna play guitar anymore.

As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.

I try not to punish the audience by making them listen to too much acoustic guitar.

All I thought about when I was a kid was getting my guitar and entertaining people.

One thing all the way through the show to me is boring. I don't care how great the artist is. I find that if my audience is very young, and they want to hear very young songs, my show will be dominated by that. But there'll be some ballads here and there and some swing tunes.

And they kind of left to find a guitar player at the very end, so you know, I don't really take it as any slight that I wasn't able to play on the record. It's flattering just to play with them period.

Sometimes the nicest thing to do with a guitar is just look at it.

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.

The guitar has a kind of grit and excitement possessed by nothing else.

Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they've seen me in movies. You want people who are listening to be only interested in the music.