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

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.

This is music I've known since I first started to play the guitar. Ray's music was one of my inspirations: He was a super soul-music man, but he was also a jazz musician, too. I see him as the height of honest expression.

Music took a bunch of average-Joe Christians who could play electric guitar and sing and threw them into the limelight. But we were not a bunch of Billy Grahams.

Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

I play piano and trumpet. I studied classical guitar.