The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.

My favorite guitar solo of all time was Elliot Randall's on `Reelin' In The Years'.

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

I played guitar all my life, all the way through the Yardbirds, but I knew that for me this was going to be a guitar vehicle, because that's what I wanted it to be.

If you are on to something creative, school can also inhibit you. The wrong teacher, man, can really mess you up.

The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second... then a third LP totally different from them. It's the reason we were able to keep it together.

There is far more sensitivity in acoustic guitar players than could ever be compared to any synthesizer. That's a personal point of view but that's the way I see it. I think that's what it's all about. The drive, the fire, the passion - it all comes out on the guitar.