You gotta constantly purify yourself, living in the city, around human beings. There might be people close to you who affect you inside yourself in such a corrupt way that it screws with your ability to do what you do. But if you make sure that the people who are close you are good people who are there for you and love you, you can create your temple everywhere you go.

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

It means basically I'm using the synthesizer more to change the sounds of other things rather than to use it as the source of the sound.

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

Maybe what I do isn't going to be acknowledged by people, but that's me. It's my nature to do things that are weirder and less understood and that was a path I needed to take

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

So I use a tape recorder a lot to record ideas.