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.

Song ideas have come to me in the middle of interviews, in the shower, or while I'm writing another song.

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

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.

18th September, 1970; Jimi Hendrix dies. I'm still on the football team when I get the news. So I take my helmet off and confront the coach to tell him I'm quitting the team. In a moment of brilliance he gives me one look and says "OK".

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

R.I.P. Steve Jobs. I bet you're busy right now revolutionizing and redesigning the afterlife for all of us to enjoy when our time comes