I am very happy to be alive. There is much fun to be had. Music, movies, books, paintings, drawingsI hope you have these things where you are. If you have them, what does the real world matter anyway?

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

What's gone will never come back, but it exists when you think of it.

If anything unfolds, it's supposed to

Sometimes it takes just living your life a certain way to be able to open yourself to the rhythm of the cosmos.

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.

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