Expression is when you are at one with nothingness.

When I smile at the audience, I'm not smiling because I was told that you're supposed to smile to the audience. I smile because they're all smiling at me, and it's a great feeling to see all these happy people out there, and it makes me happy to see them happy.

I don't have an extensive background in theory, but the amount of it that I've learned, I've applied, so I have a vocabulary of melodic and rhythmic relationships. And that's all theory is - it's symbols to help you identify those relationships.

What I do on my solo stuff is just the most natural version of who I am, and I’m trying to represent the feelings that I’m feeling as purely as possible

I just like to switch things up all the time. Like when it comes to singing, I try to find a different character for each song.

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

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.