I had a big background in listening to classical music and I started trying to compose, like I was playing the guitar but I heard an orchestra in my head.

How can I be a folk? I'm from the suburbs you know.

From a social perspective, I am looking for friends, not acolytes.

Early Bluegrass is my favorite kind of music, not to many people know that.

But I say these things in an objective dispassionate manner because, you know, and I can't explain why, but being one of the greatest guitarists in the world simply is not very important to me.

Being worshipped is a horrible experience.

I just want to be treated like an average guy.

As for fame, it can go to your head and you can become full of yourself.

The other thing in composition is opening up the unconscious.

As soon as the groupie finds out that you make errors in everyday life like everybody else does and that you are human, they turn on you and hate you.

I thought I'd be wasting my time to go to commercial record companies and make demos for them, because don't forget, I was doing what I was doing and nobody understood what I was doing.

I was using them as teachers for technique but I was never trying to be a folk.

Regarding fame, fortune and Oregon I do wish I had more money.

So I learnt a few country western songs, I bought a chord book, and right away I started writing my own stuff, which nobody else did that, I don't know why.

Well I was on the one hand, the more I played the guitar the more I began to really love the guitar and to love virtually any kind of music that anybody played well on guitar.