It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.

It's always about the music, never about anything else.

It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.

I started doing all kinds of weird stuff on the guitar, which became part of my playing. I started doing harmonics and tapping on the guitar and pulling off strings and doing all this weird stuff that no one had ever done before.

If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that’s a wonderful thing.

I can't read music. Instead, I'd do stuff inside the piano, do harmonics and all kinds of crazy things. They used to put me in these annual piano contests down at Long Beach City College, and two years in a row, I won first prize - out of like 5,000 kids!

I'm just a guitarist in a kick-ass rock and roll band. What more could I ask for?