Make sure you stay in touch with beauty instead of letting the ugliness of the world corrupt your soul

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.

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

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.

Music is my life. The things that people do don't seem interesting to me at all - going out to bars, carrying on, going to parties. What the hell do people do? Shop? Play golf? Have vacations? That doesn't seem interesting to me. To me, my job as a musician is to be a good receptor. A lot of music comes through me.

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

Artistic expression, sex, and truth are the only things that really matter.