I feel really comfortable when it's just me and a guitar. It's special and more vulnerable to strip it down. It can be scary, but it's also empowering.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A guitar is a very personal extension of the person playing it. You have to be emotionally and spiritually connected to your instrument. I'm very brutal on my instruments, but not all the time.
I've always loved the electric guitar: to hold it and work it and hear what it does is unreal.
Besides being a guitar player, I'm a big fan of the guitar. I love that damn instrument.
I make my guitar scream with pain or pleasure or sensuality. It makes people move their feet and shake their bodies. That's what music does.
I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
I could hear and feel music going on in me, and I couldn't get it out. You can always depend on a guitar.
Guitar playing is just something that came to me and is really second nature now.
I sometimes feel a bit embarrassed to play guitar. There's something - I don't want to sound ungrateful - but there's something very old-fashioned and traditional about it. You meet kids today whose grandparents were in punk bands. It's very old and traditional, but then, so is an orchestra and so is a string section.
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.
If a guitar is too easy for me to play, it makes me too laid back. I like to battle with my guitar.