Let the people know my wisdom, fill the land with smoke

I practice really hard, every day. I started that about 13 or 14 years ago; it's a discipline now. But the writing is a whole other thing. It'll come from handling a guitar, mostly; thinking up little guitar riffs. I was born and raised a rock 'n' roll guy, and that's the rock 'n' roll ethic, at least through my experience.

Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?

On Eye of the Zombie, I had so-called studio musicians.

I've studied a lot of great people over the years - Pete Seeger, James Brown - and tried to incorporate elements that I've admired, though I can't say I dance like James.

The Telecaster doesn't really sound that good for the kind of rock and roll that a lot of people played.

Four guys from England took us all by the hand.