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I believe every guitar player inherently has something unique about their playing. They just have to identify what makes them different and develop it.

I didn't start to collect records and listen to guitar players properly until I went to art school, when I'd already been playing for five years. So my style was already formed, and that's why I think it's so unique.

Playing music is not really susceptible to theory much. Circumstances affect it so much.

I'm not trying to be flippant here, but I just play the guitar, don't I? That is my characteristic, and it's my identity as you hear it.

I had learned classical guitar when I was a kid, and I embraced it, and apparently I got good at it.

For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.

The music I want to hear in my head sounds somewhere between Jimi Hendrix and Massive Attack. It's not really like my dad, but there will always be similarities because we have the same vocal cords, and I learnt the guitar the way he taught me.

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.

I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

I love to play guitar and hack around. I was in a band when I was in high school. I never learned to play very well, but I enjoyed it.