The drive to create music that is pure is my highest priority. Sometimes I'll get extremely technical, and other times I'll just kind of go with the gods of music.

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.

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

For me, theory has always opened things up to where I can walk into a room and just by hearing something I know exactly where to go on the guitar. I have a better time playing because I have a variety of colors to bring to the table.

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

As long as you're excited about what you're playing, and as long as it comes from your heart, it's going to be great.

I don't want to be on the radio. I don't want to be on Mtv.