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I come from a jazzy, acoustic, folky background. Everything has to work with melodies; the words have to have meaning.

The pull between sound and syntax creates a kind of musical tension in the language that interests me.

We're looking to help our guitar buddies do their thing while at the same time we try to create something we might enjoy listening to ourselves. If anything we are trying to develop a vocabulary so we can converse more fluidly.

There's so much you can do with laying words on a bed of music. You can completely change their meaning with the type of music or the way they're sung.

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

My training in music and composition then led me to a kind of musical language process in which, for example, the sound of the words I play with has to expose their true meaning against their will so to speak.

It's hard to decide how to match words to music. It's not like it's twice the work. It's always difficult for me to explain to the composer what I'm looking for. I'm not a professional; I lack even basic knowledge about writing music.

I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.

Also, I think having a musicality about me that helps in identifying different things in languages and getting them right.

I think words operate like musical notes that the eyeball hears.