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With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.

But my role is to just apply the skills I've learned over the years: you listen to the guitar, you listen to the vocal melodies, you listen to the rhythm, and you come up with something that helps you take the song somewhere.

Bear in mind that you are not making music for your own pleasure, but for the pleasure of your audience.

My intention is to make music that you can enjoy at all times.

I took the rhythm place, which a lot of people didn't know how to do the way I could, and this was really the first time that Johnny had a rhythm guitar player.

It's a 360-degree sound experience. Like you're in the middle of the band. A lot of people have the technology to play the format, so why not put it out there. It sounds great.

I want to sound like an instrument. I want my voice and my words to marry the beat. I go with the rhythm of it and the words start to come to my mind and those words could be based on things that's been on my mind for the past year, the past month, the past week, whatever; I write it.

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

I like to combine the dramatic emotional warmth of strings with the grooves and body business of drums and bass.

The kind of music or the kind of arrangements that I do, the kind of musicians I choose, is just what I like to hear.