It's something that goes so much beyond anything that you can even put into words.
It's something that goes so much beyond anything that you can even put into words.
It's something that goes so much beyond anything that you can even put into words.
It gives you some kind of clarity of thought, clarity of vision.
When I play the guitar, it lets me access a certain part of my self,
which is very real.
You are a guitar player, that you feel something very personal with your guitar
and your instrument. Go get to know it, go fall in love with it.
I think it's the magic with the guitar, it becomes part of your body,
it becomes a third hand.
You go through happiness, you go through sadness, you go through love and heartbreak.
You go through all these different emotions and it's all being collected in your head.
And when I'm able to touch the piano or touch the guitar, it all comes out somehow.
And I think that the ability to transform an emotion or an idea into music
is what's so appealing to me and that's what I really enjoy doing as a musician and as a composer.
The most honest music I've made has been when I'm hurt, hurting inside.
And I think that's why music is like blood.
It's in your body, it's serving you, it's supplying oxygen, moving the waste,
reaching everything that's in your body and nourishing you and keeping you alive.
Yet we don't know that it's there often.
You don't notice that you've got blood in your veins and arteries,
but it's just there silently serving you.
When you go for a blood test, you get that sharp scratch when the needle goes in and it hurts.
And then you see the blood coming out or when you've been punched in the face and you start bleeding.
You see what's keeping you alive, but you have to go through a bit of pain to see that.
And often when people see it, they get dizzy, they get queasy, they don't like to see the long blood.
And I think in the same way, when you're going through hurt and pain,
and the music you play after that is the real stuff that's keeping you going.
I want to share the feeling I have of empowerment when I play the guitar with the world.
I want everybody to know that it's possible to be able to feel this from a guitar or any kind of instrument.
If somebody takes the time, you know, three and a half minutes or four minutes of their life
to listen to me on the iPod, make that time the most valuable time as possible.
I think mind space with another person in the world, you know what I mean?
When I improvise, just going crazy on the guitar, your real sound comes out somehow,
that you get fragments of yourself in a melody.
And I've never felt so connected to something, ever.
And I think that's what's keeping me alive, and it helps you find what you're meant to be in the world for,
like it helps you find your purpose.
I've been quite preoccupied with finding what it is I'm meant to be doing,
until I just realised I just be, you know, to do what you've got to do,
and try and do it as good as you can, and serve people in the meantime.
And that's it. Live with value, live in moral.
I think that being a guitarist, the guitar will help you through that.
When I hold the guitar neck, it's like I'm holding a hand.
And it's a hand that's comforting, and it's saying, you know, don't worry.
In life, things happen. It's okay, I'm here.
And it empowers you, not in a soft way, but it makes you very hard.
It's like a weapon. It makes you a warrior, because I look like a weapon, a guitar.
And I don't know how I did it without it.
