When you hear something you don't like, don't ever play it again.

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

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.

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 always use the Jeff Beck model. Jeff Beck is just a genius, and he keeps getting better ... If there's anybody in your field you want to aspire to be like, it is a guy who does what he wants to do. Every record at least he comes out with one thing that makes everybodys' jaw drop ... I would hope that Jimi Hendrix would have done that, although, man, the odds are against him because he did so much in such a short amount of time.

When you hear something you don't like, don't ever play it again.

I've always done 'the wrong thing' and had a pretty wonderful time doing it.