I could care less about sitting around and practicing the guitar for hours a day and trying to be the best guitar player on the planet.
I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
In cities no one is quiet but many are lonely; in the country, people are quiet but few are lonely.

