

A lot of times, that’s what happens: you find something on the guitar that you like, and then the things that you’re feeling become attached to that music, and that’s what the songs are hatched from. When he played, he wrapped his thumb around the top of the neck, and I thought, “I’ll try that.” I did, and sure enough, it sounded good. I realized that it was in some kind of different tuning, so I just messed around with it. I went to play it, and it sounded horrible. When I got there, a friend of mine had a guitar sitting on his porch.

I knew that it wasn’t working, so I went to Colorado to put some distance between me and her, even though that wasn’t what I consciously did. But there was a point where I knew that I had to move on, but didn’t want to, because I was attached to her. I had been in love with my first love – a girl that I met in high school.
