But if you want me to knock Kingdom Come, all I will say is that I heard the guitarist said he'd never heard my playing, and I'd defy any guitarist in American not to have heard Led Zeppelin.

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

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 can only listen to what I'm working on, at the time. I can't listen to anything else because I don't want to copy it.

I can communicate far better on a guitar than I can through my mouth.

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

There's so many different styles and facets of the 360-degree musical sphere to listen to. From tribal to classical music, it's all there. If the bottom was to sag out of that, for God's sake, help us all.