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

I think a solo moves forward the way a song does, because it's reflective of the chords that I'm considering as I'm soloing, and at the same time I'm going as much out on a limb as Frank Zappa used to, in terms of just going crazy on the instrument.

Anybody who's a guitar player that's spent that time with another guitar player, there's nothing better than that.

For me my friendship with Omar Rodriguez from Mars Volta that friendship really means a lot to me because he's another creative person who works as hard as I do.

I try to put the same spirit into that that I put into any other music endeavor I'm involved in.

For me, living and making music, they're one thing. It's not like a job that I go to a studio to do, or a chore that I have to get myself in the mood to do, or something. It's the thing that I need to do every day.

Yeah, I really like being alive. But I definitely don't have any intentions as an artist.