"To get an idea of where I grew up in France, know this: there was still an alchemist in our town.. It was a hub for all kinds of French impressionism. That's where I learned to play the guitar: I'd go to the trailer park, sit down with a guitar, and jam. That's how you learned around there: you'd jam for hours. The trailer park was full of characters--one in particular had only two teeth, one on the top and one on the bottom that aligned perfectly. It sounds like a comic, but it was really the vibrant culture of the setting. Night fell, someone lit a fire, people congregated, talked, smoke, drank, left, and you kept jamming. That's where I got my start."