So when I feel the spirit upon me it's something I don't take it for granted, and I don't think I'm solely responsible for these things.

We are all very lucky to live in a world where there is this much music.

But for me if I'm gonna read about something I'd rather read a pamphlet or the instructions to a synthesizer than a book on Buddhism.

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.

Right now my taste is going more for things that are organic where the people are using all the sonic possibilities in interesting ways.

I can also be very happy in this life, but it's usually happiness that I get from other lives I've lived and other dimensions. This life is hardly important to me. It's very small compared to the importance that I think the fourth and fifth dimension have. Those places are much more real to me, like when you have a dream and it's more real to you than real life. Compared to where I'll be going, this life seems like a dream that just feels like a dream.

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