My guitar playing has not developed as much as I think it could because I never practice. I only play when I'm writing or recording or when I'm playing on tour. When I'm sitting around at home, I never play.
I grew up with all kinds ofmusic, but my heart was particularly drawn to Country Music because of the guitar playing, the lyrics and of artists like Steve Warner and Vince Gill.
The bulk of my set is instrumental and you have to give yourself and the audience some relief because a performance is not about great guitar playing it's really about entertainment.
My center is not really my singing so much as my guitar playing.
My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and R&B.
Most people can do what I do - they can do guitar solos - but they can't do a good, hard rhythm guitar and be dedicated to it.
Guitar solos, to me, should be a really articulate way to make fun of guitar solos.
I would have to say I'm bored with the standard rock, guitar solos, but I've done it for five albums now, and this time I wanted to go in a completely different direction. I wasn't interested in showing off any more.
It really shocked me just to hear of the fans' response to 'St. Anger' not having guitar solos.
I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
I'm sure if Shakespeare were alive today, he'd be doing classic guitar solos on YouTube.
It's quite similar to guitar solos, only with programming you have to use your brain. The most important thing is that it should have some emotional effect on me, rather than just, 'Oh, that's really clever.'
Our music is an answer to the early Seventies when artsy people with big egos would do vocal harmonies and play long guitar solos and get called geniuses.
I love all my guitar solos.
I don't like guitar solos that are like, 'Look at me, look at me!' I like guitar solos that are little songs within the songs.
I didn't want to take the guitar solos down note-for-note, but more or less use them as a map, and keep all the hooks from the guitar playing, and let myself come through.
In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.
I don't labour over my lead guitar solos; they're better just caught in the moment.
The only thing I don't write is the guitar solos, but even then I might suggest one or two things.
Guitar solos bore the hell out of me. Only a few guitarists interest me, and it's not about the solos they play, it's about the grooves they create.
