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

When I want to play music, you've got to get me on tape or else it goes.

Basic anatomy. That has got to be the ongoing frustration: Why can't my fingers do what I want them to do? Not being able to play what I hear in my head - that is the ultimate source of frustration.

It really sucks when music is so perfect you just don't need to hear it anymore.

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.

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

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.