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I wanted to be heard myself, which is hard in a household of people who were very showy. It forced me to find myself and define a personality and a way of being different, and that's a thing that's going to help me to survive in a world of many people playing the guitar.

I was a guitar player first off.

When I got into music, I wanted to learn guitar just enough to be able to write songs. I wanted to be able to express myself.

When I got out of high school, I was in a blues band. It was the kind of music I was interested in, and listening to, mostly because it was becoming a vehicle for a generation of guitarists - like Jeff Beck and Eric Clapton. Mike Bloomfield. And that's what I wanted to be, principally: a guitar player.

I played the guitar. When I was 14, I composed songs - Paul McCartney-style things. I had a rock band - we'd compete in festivals.

I learned to play guitar at a young age and converted poems and stuff that I had written to songs.

I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.

I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.

I had no aspirations to be a musician, but I picked up a guitar for two seconds and haven't put it down since.