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I've never understood people who play up the artifice of music.

I detest talking about myself. There is a reason why people pick up an instrument and put it between themselves and the rest of the world.

But I've come to the point in my evolution on the instrument where I realize that I can't play the same stuff that just a guitar player or organ player would play - and I need to embrace that in a big way.

I despise - I hate - I'm terrified of karaoke, and I wish I wasn't because everybody I know who's awesome loves it.

I play the real instruments. I don't waste my time with anything else.

For too long, musicians have been the greatest enemy of music. Their lack of desire to proselytize is a kind of betrayal.

I do not play to musicians. I play to the people.

Those who have expressed doubts and misgivings about their ability to live this kind of life shouldn't try, because being a musician is not something you chose to be, it is something you are.

There's nothing I despise more than people trying to be something that they're not.