When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes.

If someone can relate my guitar solo to an exercise in a book... that's no fun at all.

It's funny how you can struggle with one piece and write a better one in a minute. When things come easy, it means it's good.

I started out playing guitar because Jimi Hendrix was my hero, so my roots were really based on Jimi Hendrix and his style of playing.

When you're a guitar teacher, you teach people for a few years, and you become comrades after a while. Because everybody eventually catches up to everybody else, and you want to help each other out - to see if you can make the dream a reality.

When you hear an instrumental song someone is singing over, you know right away it's wrong.

I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says "Shred Is Dead" and they say, "What the Hell?" They throw it away and keep on playing.