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To put it in musician's terms, my chops are good.

If you've got the chops, people these days are more accepting of you.

Whenever I feel my chops are slacking, I'll play some wide-stretch trilling exercises and take them up and down the neck as well as across it.

I went through a wood-chopping phase when I was nine or 10.

I get up every morning and chop wood, and I pretty much do it seven days a week, and I like to do it. I still have time for my wife and my son, who's 14, and at this point, my head is still above water.

Any time you stick your neck out in high school, there's someone right there to chop your head off.

I quit drinking, so I can think clear. When you have chop trouble, drinking doesn't help the healing process.

I pretty much bailed on high school. I mean, I graduated, but I wasn't even there for my own graduation.

I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.