Learn everything you know in all keys.

I'm a little tired. I haven't been out for more than five or six weeks in the States, and that's really a lot for me. You know, to me, music is important, it's the way I make my living and I like it and I enjoy playing. But it's not the most important thing in my life - that's my family.

I grew up playing the guitar. I started when I was nine, and by the time I was nine and a half or ten, I was doing seven or eight hours' practice every day. I did two hours' practice at six o'clock in the morning before I went to school, and another two hours as soon as I got home from school in the afternoon. Then I did four hours at night before I went to bed. I did that until I was fourteen or fifteen.

Learn everything you know in all keys.

Guitarists should be able to pick up the guitar and play music on it for an hour, without a rhythm section or anything.

I don't remember that I copied any guitar player note-for-note. But I remember copying Charlie Parker note for note.

If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward.