He's been hooked since he first bought a guitar at a Surfers Paradise store at 24 and felt that "thrill" of strumming a song. During his downtime this summer, he's been playing an Eric Clapton song called Crossroads over and over.
"In the end, I got a lot of people offside, that's the last thing I wanted to do. I don't want to look silly and disrespectful to the opposition. I never want that to happen again. It's not an ideal situation, people commenting on me as a person (from that incident), and I know I'm continuing to develop as a person and cricketer in front of a national audience.
"I'm definitely learning from my mistakes. It's something I definitely don't want to happen again. It's definitely not an ideal situation and all I'm trying to do is to become a better person and cricketer every single time I step out on the field."
"It's really been the music that hit home to me the most. It really has so much emotion and feeling in it. I play all the time because it's a way to continue to develop, I guess, my feelings and emotions."
From the time Watson walked into a store and picked up a guitar, he has played it "relentlessly".
"It's the best thing I've done in my life for a number of reasons," Watson said. "There was a time previous to that, that cricket was my whole and sole existence. I knew I needed some balance in my life.
"It's so easy to get caught up in things that aren't that important in your life," Watson said. "When you saw someone like Jane, who was so joyous in every day she was given, it definitely puts everything in perspective. That was something that really made me develop and learn as a person."
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