After I retired and came off the road, I gathered up all my musical instruments and suddenly, I wanted them all to be perfect.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I decided to make music again at a time when I couldn't have had more obstacles.
I had been building electronic musical instruments since I was a kid.
I was working like a dog as a housekeeper, barista, nanny, cook, so I could save enough money to really sit with my instruments. Whenever I had 20 minutes, I would practice a new chord or write a new verse.
I had my guitar and some talent so that I could make friends with intelligent people and could talk my way out of difficult situations.
Setting my mind on a musical instrument was like falling in love. All the world seemed bright and changed.
Drums were my first instrument.
There was a period when I'd just come out of college where I'd been playing classical guitar and I suddenly realised that it wasn't what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.
Every day I look forward to getting with my instruments, trying new things.
I wanted to hear the songs in the way that I had written them, which was very basic. All I wanted was drums and another guitar, and I was just going to sing.
My musical career was an accident.