i am not a pot-smoking hippie that wants to jam with bongos in a van down by the river.

i am not a drunken frat boy metalhead looking to wow girls to get laid.

i'm not even a straight-edge punk looking to start a revolution (although i have stronger sympathies with this).

what i am is a studied jazz guitarist that writes some kind of classical music for consumption over headphones and wants to do so in a quiet, controlled environment.

and, my hair is long because i'm a girl - not because i'm a rock star.

if i wanted to be a dude guitarist, i'd cut my hair and join a punk band. but that's not what i want to be. at all.