foolishly play with the fires of rumor, only to risk being burned by its treacherous flames.

Get these people drunk. I don't know if you're aware of this, but we're horrible acoustic. We're going to play all of Neil Diamond's greatest hits, chronologically, alphabetically and scientologically.

The first record I bought was a Carl Perkins record, because I saw him at The Festival at Sandpoint, Idaho. I loved Elvis and I found out that he wrote 'Blue Suede Shoes'... so connecting that experience of going to see him play was pretty awesome. That's when I realised I wanted to play guitar.

The problem is that music is selfish in that you need to make it for yourself, so that you can give it away, and those two things don't jive. I needed to find the right reason to play that had the magic and mystery and excitement that made me want to play in the first place.

Right now there's a risk in signing any baseball player, whether or not there's been a rumor about him or not. There's a dark cloud over the entire sport.

I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.