I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.

In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lifestyle is so fast that oftentimes people search for whatever the easiest way to feel relaxed in the midst of all of it, or the easiest way to have energy.

All I know is that the six months when I recorded this music was the most productive time of my life, and I'll always remember it as the first time in my life that I ever felt like I was one with my dreams.

I write songs because I have to write them, and if I didn't I'd be doing some other kind of music that didn't require a song.

When the intellectual part of guitar playing overrides the spiritual, you don't get to extreme heights.

I wanted all my solos to be something you could sing along with

Because I'm pure inside, the music that comes out of me is a life-giving thing. Like water.