Things turn out better by accident sometimes. But you can't organize accidents.

There was mass hysteria in the Chess Recording Studio when I did the "Shapes of Things" solo ... they weren't expecting it, and it was just some weird mist coming from the East out of an amp.

I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound. Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off.

I do hear snippets on the radio. I do hear a little bit of me, sometimes great chunks of me. But I have to take that as a compliment; there's no way you can get sour grapes about that. But if somebody starts taking your whole new thing lock, stock, and barrel, and do their own version of it before you do it, that's not on.

I play the way I do cause it allows me to come up w/ the sickest sounds possible. That's the point now isn't it?

If you don't have an album or you don't have any tune, you can't start.

I play purely from the heart, y'know, and so if it doesn't work the first couple of hours, forget it.