When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
All I thought about when I was a kid was getting my guitar and entertaining people.
Like all teenagers in the early '60s, I put down my hockey stick when the Beatles got big and picked up a guitar. We all thought we'd be rock stars. Then I got into comedy, but I'd always find a way to use my guitar, such as writing songs and doing musical parodies.
Music's been with me from the get-go. It was always around me as a kid. Dad got me my first guitar when I was 11 and, at school, if you wanted to be cool you had to be in a band.
It wasn't until I was 18, when I was graduating high school, that I went and bought a guitar on a whim.
You couldn't really like a bad guitar in 1960 'cause everybody was pretty good.
Guitars have been the obsession of my life. I first picked one up at the age of four and I've been a guitar junkie ever since.
I got my first guitar when I was 16. I'd play for my family and friends, but taking that guitar out there into the wide, wide world wasn't something I ever thought about.
My older sister encouraged me from early on and bought me one of the first guitars I had. She listened to all of the crappy songs that I wrote when I was 8 years old and encouraged me to keep doing it.
My father was a guitar player, and I was raised with a super high standard of what good guitar playing was.
My guitar was a loyal person to me.