The Struggles of a Guitarist

I was amazed you were in a band that covered American Girl by Tom Petty. Your guitar style, tracing it in the book is really interesting because you played all sorts of stuff. So I mean, what were the steps in your mind to kind of crystallize the style that you've expanded upon and done a lot of things with? "It would almost be easier to say what I rejected because if something's only too bluesy, it sounded just too elemental to me"