I'm more interested in melodic things. I think the biggest challenge when you go to play a solo is trying to invent a melody on the spot.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

One and one is eleven.

If you really love guitar, you're going to spend every waking hour stroking the thing.

The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse.

The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.

Reality is what it is, not what you want it to be.