My inspirations don't come from outer space, they just come to me. I have no idea why they come when they do.

Some of us are going to play faster than others. Hitting the right notes and getting your technique right is so much more important than speed.

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.

Relax. Be yourself. Play a lot.

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

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.