You should play with real musicians; the best music comes from real people interacting with each other.
The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.
That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.
On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.
Now that I'm older, I like almost anything that's done well, even surf music and instrumentals; I really enjoyed the interviews with the Ventures in your magazine.
I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.
When I made Blue Moon Swamp, there was a lot of trial and error; I was trying to find people who would be simpatico with my style, and with what I had in mind for the album.