I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn't expect to work, did and some things won't ever work.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I kinda taught myself how to play guitar, and I still play to this day. It's become a pretty big part of my life.
And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.
I started teaching myself guitar because I loved singing so much. Then one day kind of out of the blue I found I was writing a song. It just happened organically.
I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
I was almost kind of trapped by my own success into only doing rock.
Over the years, I've had to learn to play. For example, when 'Lennon' was on Broadway, I learned my way around the guitar chords because originally we were all going to play the instruments without a band.
I wanted to be able to play guitar. I wanted to be able to make music hurt.
I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
I did everything I could to not be a musician.
I was never a singer; I can't play any instruments; I had no training. Plus, I was brought up in a time when all the great rock stars were male. I didn't have any template for what I was doing. I did what I did out of frustration and concern.