Rock guitarists usually do not wish to think trains of thought about anything but their own guitar playing during a long solo, and I could not play this way if I were not able to divide my attention between my ever changing musical environment and my instrument itself.

Mainly, I don't like it when music is made solely to impress people or in order to please business people; it doesn't sound good to me. If you're making music in order to become famous or loved by the masses that's not what I'm about. When somebody's making music for the wrong reasons, I hear it right away.

I think the feelings in my music were suggested to me before I even had the ability to play music.

I don’t pay attention to the world. I just have the art I like and the music I like and for me that’s the whole world

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

I write lyrics. I play the guitar. If the rest of the band had to do my schedule, they would be dead

Any guitar solo should reflect the music that it's soloing over and not just be existing in its own sort of little world.