The guys in my band buy instruments and sell and trade them. But if I have something I hang onto it. Everything is sentimental to me.

When I was growing up, I would go hang out with older guys at night in blues clubs.

I'm somewhat of a hoarder. I keep everything.

The prices keep going up. You can't try and sell a piece of junk around here. People won't buy that. But people definitely are still looking to buy.

You hope that when you're playing someone possibly unsympathetic that you can bring them something redeeming, something people can hang onto.

When I got my first guitar, I played along with everything I heard that had guitar in it, like the Ramones, Nirvana and Sublime, as well as whatever hip-hop and R&B stuff was on the radio.