I love Richmond. I think growing up here had a profound influence on my music.

Guitar Player' was always the serious musician's magazine. They rarely catered to what was popular. They focused on innovative players.

I don't miss playing guitar anymore. I'm sure that's out of necessity, but I am grateful for so much more. I am surrounded by loving people, and I can still make music.

I still have downs and get depressed, but I try not to dwell too much on being negative because it always passes and there is still so much to do.

I think it should be ambitious and good music does deal with life and art and all these wonderful things.

I do really enjoy Jay McInerney's wine writing. He's a good writer. He brings his fiction-writing skillset. He's not afraid to put wine in kind of a racy context and speak very candidly about it.

I love rock-n-roll. I think it's an exciting art form. It's revolutionary. Still revolutionary and it changed people. It changed their hearts. But yeah, even rock-n-roll has a lot of rubbish, really bad music.

I think courage is commensurate with your fear - if you lack imagination and you're fearless, that's not courage to me.