Relax. Be yourself. Play a lot.

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.

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.

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

I'm ready to take the heat.

Satriani's Law: There's at least a 30% chance that someone will print the name Satriani incorrectly

I write the songs first and in most cases teach myself the technique second.