On Style
"I personally feel a lot of my style is leaning toward more melodic playing. I feel, when I was taking classical, it gave me a lot of ideas to turn things into leads. The thing I keep thinking is if I could only study again, I could have all this new input for ideas. I could stumble upon things again. Whats happening now is I feel like I need some totally new scales or something. Sources. I find I play the same thing and I sort of get bored with it.""I knew when I was studying that I got a lot from there. I think it would help. I'm on the road all the time, so I don't really know. I was thinking of trying to teach myself again, but you know how that is. You do everything wrong."
"I was thinking the only way I could keep myself together on the road, and keep practicing and keep playing, is to have a teacher sort of thing every day. Besides the fact that the cost would be ridiculous, I was wondering if someday it would be possible to do. What I'm finding now is, I go on the road, and aside from gigging, I'm not really sure what I want to do. I don't know if I want to stay in and practice or go out. I need something to keep me there, some responsibility. I'm sort of bored with my own playing. I'll pick up a guitar and it seems like it's the same thing now. I need total stimulation from somewhere."
"I think 'Well, okay, you've got to sit down and play every day, and you'll accidentally come up with things.' That's true. If you sit with the guitar long enough every day, you're gonna come up with stuff and you're gonna improve. But sometimes it's hard to put yourself in that frame of mind."
"Sometimes I'll go down to the gig way early and sit in the tune-up room all day. But I'm finding that I'm losing my control on that right now. So what I'm saying is that, if I had a tutor, it would sort of like be a responsibility. I'm paying this guy and it's my commitment to keep at it."
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