The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book.

We still get those kind of cats coming out to our shows. Once you're into it, you're into it for a lifetime.

To get my sound in the studio, I double guitar tracks, and when it gets to the lead parts, the rhythm drops out, just like it's live. I'm very conscious of that.

I would just listen to records and learn what I could, then just roll it over and over and over.

My old man was a musician - that's what he did for a living. And like most fathers, occasionally he'd let me visit where he worked. So I started going to his recording studio, and I really dug it.

The worst advice I ever received from my dad was to play by the book. My old man used to flip out whenever I would try to branch out and do something different. Although he didn't do it on purpose, he really held me back in the beginning.

A lot of bands whine about the road and how tough it is.