I would take my guitar to college and sit for hours in the hills humming to myself.
I like having big hooks and big records and sing-a-longs.
I try to become a singer. The guitar has always been abused with distortion units and funny sorts of effects, but when you don't do that and just let the genuine sound come through, there's a whole magic there.
The guitar can go at a scream. It can yell at you.
A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.
I'm always happy with a guitar in my hand.
In every sound, the hidden silence sleeps.
When I was at school, I used to stay on a balcony singing and people would stand around listening.
I like to be quiet and play guitar and just chill.
When I sit down and play guitar, I melt into the instrument. I can play for hours by myself. Playing guitar has given me such a wonderful life, and I'm grateful for it.
The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.
I think what constitutes rock nowadays is people that actually play and sing. They can do the job live with no ProTools or embellishments or other recorded material.
I love, love, love Lauryn Hill's 'MTV Unplugged.' It just helps relax me. I love just where she was in her space with that album and the truth that she was telling.
I'm full of dust and guitars.
The violin is basically made of a wood box and four main strings.
The guitar is my whole life.
What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
Lay down the song you strum, And rest yourself 'neath the strength of strings No voice can hope to hum.
Nylon string is still a new love and I'm not tired of it yet.
When you have live music in the background, people are usually talking over it. You don't actually get to listen to live music in your space all the time.
To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don't know why you like 'em but you do.
I call myself a harp because I like the sound of the word - it is short, sharp, and abusive.
I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.
It just doesn't get any more stripped down than going out totally alone and doing songs.
What I love is when I play gigs, it's just me and a guitar - very simple, very direct and intimate, and you hear every lyric, and you hear every detail.
