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 don't go walking into things blind.

The way I see it, rock & roll is folk music. Street music. It isn't taught in school. It has to be picked up.

Many people in the neighborhood liked hip-hop and house music, and I couldn't play that. You can't perform that on guitar or drums, which was what I was playing, at the time. But, I got so much from mariachi bands that were constantly playing in the neighborhood.

I really wasn't needed... Just straightening up riffs, that's all. Just two guitarists doing it instead of one.

I don't like being stuck in one situation, day to day.

If you're working at the factory and you're cursing every day that you get up, at all costs get out of it. You'll just make yourself ill.