guitar
I found a new chord the other day. I was like, “Shit, if I had known that years ago…” That’s what’s beautiful about the guitar. You think you know it all, but it keeps opening up new doors. I look at life as six strings and twelve frets. If I can’t figure out everything that’s in there, what chance do I have of figuring out anything else?
Oct. 17, 2002 interview by David Fricke, in The Rolling Stone Interviews, ed. by Jann S. Wenner and Joe Levy (New York: Back Bay Books, 2007), 440.
I have a guitar made out of a 2×4 that I bought in Cleveland. You know, in Iraq, you can’t have a guitar in the window of a music store because it’s too sexy. You know, the curves. So I could go over there with these 2×4 guitars and really take the country by storm.
Pitchfork, interview by Amanda Petrusich, posted November 27, 2006.