Relax. Be yourself. Play a lot.

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.

There's a fine line between giving the sense of freedom and being too free.

Solos I kind of [couldn't] care less about. I know most people probably think that's what I care most about, but it's really the melody playing that is the cornerstone of what I'm working on.

Guitarists shouldn't get too riled up about all of the great players that were left off of 'Rolling Stone Magazines' list of the Greatest Guitar Players of all Time' ... Rolling Stone is published for people who read the magazine because they don't know what to wear.

I started learning to sing what I liked, to experience it in a visceral way. Then it's inside. Get rid of the neurosis and then you can improvise.

I pride myself on being incorrigible. I have a very hard time being told what to do.