I've been making music since age five.
I'm a struggling guitar player.
In a way, I started out to be a baritone player.
I didn't touch a guitar until I was 20.
A violin is nothing more than a piece of wood and a dead cat. But it's a piece of technology. So when computers came along, in the '70s, I suddenly thought, hang on a second, this is interesting. These things can become an instrument. So I just became very interested in them, and started, playing with electronics.
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
You do have to be a bit careful with your voice. It is an instrument.
I play Orange County drums. I love those guys. I've got a four piece kit.
The electric guitar was a big step for me, but I didn't spend a lot of time trying to adjust. It wasn't like, 'Hey, little lady, come strap on this here big guitar.' We took it in steps as much as possible.
I wanted to play drums and if I didn't play drums, I wouldn't make music and drums are the foundation for what I do.
My first really good guitar was a Gibson J-45.
I started playing drums in the 4th grade.
I loved playing the guitar and I knew I was pretty good at it, so that's what I wanted to do with my life.
Strings have been a part of my career and my albums since the very first day. 'Snowbird' had beautiful strings.
When I was 12, I wanted to learn how to play the guitar, and I found a chord book in a shop, and I stuffed it down my trousers. And that's how I learned to play the guitar.
The first songs I ever wrote - my first, like, serious offerings - were all written on ukulele. It's always been a part of the way I write for a really long time.
It's hilarious, because my guitar has what's known as a tremolo bar or a whammy bar. And the whammy bar is probably the most alien thing on my guitar that could possibly relate to a classical guitar.
So I played alto for quite a while until I saved up the money for the baritone.
When I was 16 I had a table at home in Melbourne and I hardly ever practised.
I've always been a music fan. I played trumpet. When I was in 4th grade, we were getting demos from the music teacher about different instruments we could play, and I said I wanted to play the trumpet right away. It was easy: it just had three valves.
As long as I can remember, growing up we had a guitar around our house, and I was always plucking on it.
I took a few piano lessons as a kid, but it didn't last; I just learned piano from doing it over and over on my own, because I didn't have many friends, and there was always a keyboard in the house.
The guitar can go at a scream. It can yell at you.
There are early videos of me at three years old with a tiny guitar trying to sing 'Friends in Low Places' by Garth Brooks.
Saxophone is one thing, and music is another.
