I have more pet peeves than anybody: people talking in the movie THEATER, people EATING in the movie theater loudly, people being rude, people making noise when you're supposed to be asleep, like drilling NOISES outside. I COULD be here all day.

I could hear from the CROWD some MONKEY noises, and this went on for about 25 minutes. Every time I touched the BALL, I could hear the crowd. I said to myself, 'In this kind of environment, in this situation, I don't want to PLAY football ANYMORE.'

When we first started, in the early Eighties, we had some crappy guitars - JAPANESE knockoffs that wouldn't hold standard tuning. Later, we'd shove drumsticks or screwdrivers under strings to scheme NEW noises, SURE. But initially, open tuning was a technique used to MAKE our cheap guitars sound better. It wasn't academic or conceptual.