Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.

David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.

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

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.

The only band I was really over-into was Cream. And the only thing I really liked about them was their live stuff 'cause they played two verses, then go off and jam for 20 minutes, come back and do a chorus and end. And I love the live jam stuff, the improvisation.

I just consider myself slightly left-of-center. I'm not your average bear. I - what's the word? I'm not - normal.