I Have Always Thought Of Myself As

I Was Taking A Nose Dive Somewhere Between Eleven And Twelve Because My Sister Had Died And I Was Practicing Something That Siblings Do Which Is Follow In Their Footsteps And Die As Well.

The Principle Element In A Performance Is Risk, And If You're Losing Interest Then By Scaring Yourself To Death The Audience Will Feel It And Boy It'll Wake Them Up.

It Is Not A Mystical Thing, However, It Is Obvious And Practical And I Think That What The Performer Does Is To Try To Get To That Point With Every Choice You Make From The Phrasing In A Tune To The Choice Of Tunes.

It's True That The More You Put In The More You Get Out And That Has To Be There I Think, If You Aren't Really Hooked On Your Instrument This Job Would Be A Hell On Earth But If You Are, It's The Best.

I Think That Open Tunings Are A Trap Really Because It's Really Hard Not To Sound Like An Open Tuning When Your Using One And That Gets Old As Well As What You Learn In One Open Tuning Is Going To Stay There.