If I get an idea for a song, I have a melody for it. I'm a musician first. I'm not limited by the fretboard.
When Ray Flacke came out, it was like 'What in the heck is this?' ... there's a guy who had that Tele players attitude, and he plugged straight into that amp with a delay, and it was unbelievable the way he would bend those big strings ... he was really unique.
I changed my mindset and figured, Why not try to be really entertaining instrumentally?
Even on the most serious ballads, I'll throw in a tongue-in-cheek remark.
I'm a last-minute shopper. I end up at the mall or somewhere on Christmas Eve. It's a shame.
Unless you're a true prodigy, you're going to have to practice for a while being bad before you get any good. And it will seem like a waste of time. I remember that feeling well. But don't worry about wasting time, because it'll be so worth it. It's my experience that in the end, life lessons and guitar lessons begin to blur in all sorts of interesting ways.
I really worked to try and be creative enough on the guitar parts so those who aren't real educated would know that there was some difficulty in doing it.
I try to write like the writers I admire - I rip them off in form. It comes from George Strait and Merle Haggard records, and country music in general is really good at that, the twisted phrase... So Im always looking for that angle in my own work.
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