“I always think that, for me, being someone who comes out of electric g...” — Lee Ranaldo Quote

“I always think that, for me, being someone who comes out of electric guitar experimentation, the idea of playing acoustic guitar is, in itself, kind of a radical move.”

“When you listen to early Leonard Cohen records or Joni Mitchell records, you feel like a window is being opened into someone's life.”

“Sometimes, for me, lyrics are derived from poems that I'm working on, and they kind of cross back and forth between the two.”

“Once all the power goes out, there will still be human beings standing together around a campfire, playing acoustic guitars.”

“When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.”

“Everybody besides my piano player has been with me since the very first day. We were a four-piece band for a solid two years. It was me playing acoustic and rhythm electric guitar, a bass player, a drummer and a lead guitar player. For a couple of years, we sounded like the Foo Fighters.”