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It was also important for me to have a burning desire to achieve something worthwhile on that instrument, and I devoted many many many hours with little or no compensation to perfecting whatever I could, because I loved it so much.

I needed to explore my talent and versatility and see if I had another side to me, another sound.

I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.

I don't know if subconsciously there was some reaction going on, if there was something in me that didn't want to learn an instrument - because I couldn't have been that incompetent!

I always thought that I was an important musician. If you don't have that confidence, why would you go on and do it?

Style is the instrument you can pick back up when you want to regain some of the confidence you've lost.

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've always been compelled by some force to be a performer.

I couldn't get session work because most musicians hated my style.