Once I got a guitar that was relatively user-friendly, but not super-duper easy, I really came on as a guitarist, at that point. It helped. It was a super-expensive guitar either, but something needs to steer you a bit, if you're playing an instrument that is really hard.

I guess the solo from 'Achilles Last Stand' is in the same tradition as the solo from 'Stairway to Heaven'...it is on that level to me.

You absorb so much from whatever your environment is, as an artist, and you learn to take from it what can help you create.

When I started doing sessions, the guitar was in vogue. I was playing solos every day.

The term "genius" gets used far too loosely in rock & roll.

I know where I'm going musically. I can see my pattern and I'm going much slower than I thought I'd be going.

I have a voracious appetite for all things, worldly and unworldly.