I can fall in and out of love, have marriages that barely last a month. When they go down the drain, I'll blame it on the fame.

I imagine there's a market for total depression. I grew up on George Jones and that really dark stuff.

Albert Lee and I have become real close friends, and he comes out anytime I'm in the L.A. area, and he'll sit in for the whole show ! ... we've got a habit of doing that ... in Austin Redd Volkaert does the same thing ... it's fun ... I love to make it a guitar thing and the audience doesn't know any different - they think he's some new band member they don't know. They don't realize Albert's the reason we all play Teles!.

Anytime you do something from the heart, people just know it.

When they say you're the best, I always remember that the majority of the audience probably thinks someone else should have gotten the award.

In the past, I tried to be more of a typical session guitarist. I wasn't so concerned with impressing anybody.

If you're really on top, you probably didn't do that great, 'cause you have to water it down a bit for it to get that mass appeal