I just feel like the songs that come out are the songs that come.

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

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

But I think I know just as many creative people who've never taken drugs in their life as I do who have taken a lot of drugs.

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

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.